chow

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   Food, especially snacks.
2. 2
   Unripe, or partially ripened, fruit seasoned and served as a dish, e.g. pineapple chow or mango chow.
3. 3
   A Chow Chow.
4. 4
   A Chinese person.
5. 5
   A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district.
6. 6
   A run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit.
7. 7
   A call for forming such a run using a discarded tile.
8. 8
   A Chow Chow (Chinese breed of dog).

Verb

1. 1
   To eat.
2. 2
   To call a discarded tile to produce a chow.

Proper noun

1. 1
   A surname from Cantonese.
2. 2
   Alternative form of Zhou (“dynasty, realm, and era”).