Crossword clues for chophouse
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chophouse \Chop"house`\, n. A house where chops, etc., are sold; an eating house.
The freedom of a chophouse.
--W. Irving.
Chophouse \Chop"house`\, n. [See Chop quality.]
A customhouse where transit duties are levied. [China]
--S.
W. Williams.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A restaurant that specializes in chops or steaks; a steakhouse. 2 A custom house in China where transit duties are levied.
WordNet
n. a restaurant that specializes in steaks [syn: steakhouse]
Usage examples of "chophouse".
I want to sit down in a chophouse and feel at ease without some jumped-up gentry sneering about trade.
In the wee small hours Penny and I had done away with a couple of thick steaks in some chophouse on upper Broadway.
The fog had gone entirely when I left the chophouse and the sky had settled low above the rooftops and was dimly pulsing.
There followed a general donning of coats and scarves, some slapstick with dollar bills and the spilled ice from a drink, and then at some point Rosa and Joe seemed to remark that they were headed out the door of the chophouse and that Sammy was not with them.
Wade with her sewing and served at the local chophouse during busy times.
Harry was heading for a little chophouse that had been recommended as a good place for dinner.
Court had left Susanna at the hotel, he rode on to a chophouse where he ate dinner with various business acquaintances who happened to be there and who found him rather uncommunicative, considering the interest of the latest Packard tale.
The street was filled cheek-by-jowl with pawnbrokers, wine merchants, import-export dealers, and chophouses, and all of them catering to seamen, tradesmen, and businessmen.
It was a small and inexpensive chophouse in Soho, and the detective was not there on business.
He was comfortable and relaxed, and remembering Pavel Papashvilly in the back room of a chophouse around the corner from Cavanaugh's down on lower Eighth Avenue, after a recording at Lincoln Center.
It was after eleven, and except for drifters, derelicts, and Mexican dishwashers leaving darkened chophouses, the sidewalks were deserted.
I spent a few days wandering around the town, sampling the food in different chophouses and seafood dives—they were all good—and drinking a tasty red beer called "izm.
I spent a few days wandering around the town, sampling the food in different chophouses and seafood divesthey were all goodand drinking a tasty red beer called "izm.