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CHOW LINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does chow line mean?
• CHOW LINE (noun)
The noun CHOW LINE has 1 sense:
1. a queue of people waiting for food to be served (especially at a military camp)
Familiarity information: CHOW LINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A queue of people waiting for food to be served (especially at a military camp)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("chow line" is a kind of...):
queue; waiting line (a line of people or vehicles waiting for something)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
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