Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A restaurant that specializes in serving steaks and chops of meat.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An eating-house where the serving of chops and steaks is made a specialty.
Wiktionary
- n. A restaurant that specializes in chops or steaks; a steakhouse
- n. China A custom house where transit duties are levied.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A house where chops, etc., are sold; an eating house.
- n. China A customhouse where transit duties are levied.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a restaurant that specializes in steaks
Etymologies
- For Chinese customs sense, see chop quality. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This could have been a great funny, chophouse gorefest.”
The Anatomy of “District 9″ - Eric’s review » Scene-Stealers
“Papered-over restaurant windows and "retail space available" signs scar downtown, even if you can still buy a $45 steak at a Pennsylvania Avenue chophouse.”
“Jar www. thejar.com Brunch at this chophouse is a modern alternative to the always-busy dinner service.”
“If you want the traditional chophouse experience, go with one of the major chains on the list like the beloved Palm or the ubiquitous (and ridiculously named) Ruth's Chris Steakhouse.”
“But if you want just the tiniest twist or tweak, check out Los Angeles stand-alones like Jar, which describes itself as "a modern chophouse," or the super-sexy STK that boasts, "not your daddy's steakhouse.”
“If you want the traditional chophouse experience, go with one of the major chains on the list like the beloved Palm or the ubiquitous and ridiculously named Ruth's Chris Steakhouse.”
“Monday Luvo crouches in the alley outside a chophouse watching the news on a bar television through an open window.”
“The other night she made crisp sirloin steaks worthy of a chophouse.”
“And those damn kids today. [shaking fist] Bob Sambol, as you may know, owns a steak and chophouse.”
“Its anemic sales growth might surprise some: S&W is a steak--and chophouse chain, and when Americans noticed their expanding waistlines, it was the lowly carbohydrate that took the fall: The Atkins and South Beach miracle diets seemed to permit luscious protein and fat allowances.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chophouse’.
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My Strange Kitchen
It seems that whenever I look away, new gadgets and devices and tools and dishes and utensils and ingredients are multiplying in my kitchen drawers and my cabinets.
tectonic plates, spoonbill, fork in the road, bowl haircut, whisk away, greasy spoon, melting pot, pan flute, platelets, spooning, pitchfork, jackknife and 101 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Looks like a digraph, but isn't
mishap, mishear, boathouse, courthouse, chophouse, ungainly, anthill, pothole, haphazard, upholstery, hothead, upheaval and 16 more...
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colleen's words ii
sibilant, sundry, spindle, distaff, device, mortar, pestle, scythe, flail, thresh, frown, elementary and 495 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
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grassdog's Words
schadenfreude, sanguine, nefarious, verisimilitude, antediluvian, salacious, obfuscate, plethora, cacophony, defenestration, vacillate, blasphemy and 478 more...
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You Are Where You Eat
diner, brasserie, rotisserie, bistro, cafeteria, canteen, grillroom, steakhouse, teahouse, cafe, chophouse, greasy spoon and 22 more...
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