chowed down
Devoured a meal
Chowed down is past tense of chow down, meaning to eat heartily or enthusiastically.
The phrase suggests diving into food with gusto rather than eating delicately: We chowed down on pizza after the game.
Chow is informal for food, from Chinese pidgin English.
- dig inBegin a meal
- chowhoundSlang for glutton
- devouredAte hungrily and completely
- ate like a horseConsumed food ravenously
- inhaledDrew into lungs
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