noun

• (slang, uncountable) Food, especially snacks.
  "I'm going to pick up some chow for dinner."
• (Trinidad and Tobago) Unripe, or partially ripened, fruit seasoned and served as a dish, e.g. pineapple chow or mango chow.
• (chiefly Australia, slang, now rare) A Chinese person.
  "These were the creatures Nawnim had been amazed to see about him on the day of his arrival. When he inquired about them, Anna told him they were Japs an' Chows."

verb

• (slang, South Africa) To eat.

noun

• (mahjong) A run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit.
• (mahjong) A call for forming such a run using a discarded tile.

verb

• (mahjong) To call a discarded tile to produce a chow.
  "[…] while the adversary on his right will repeatedly bury in the discard the very tiles he wishes to chow but can't."