chow down
informal to eat heartily
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How to use chow down in a sentence
They might, at least, let us chow down on a few Big Macs from time to time without putting on the pounds.
These Diet Lessons From Olympians Will Help You Lose Weight and Look Awesome | Jenna A. Bell | February 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhat better way to juice up than to chow down on some of that blood dripping off the just-dead animal hanging outside your hut?
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Other Idioms and Phrases with chow down
Eat, as in He's always ready to chow down at dinner time. Originally military slang, this term is now more widely used. The noun chow in the sense of food, originating from either Chinese or pidgin English in the 18th century, also appears in such terms as chow line, a line of people waiting for food, and chow time, mealtime. [Slang; mid-1900s]
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