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chowline en · NOUN

Etymology

From chow + line.

Meanings

1. A line of people waiting for food.
   • At lunchtime, the train stopped again, and an army style chowline was set up... 1982, John Weitz, Friends in high places:
   • Yet apparently millions of us just love being nudged or browbeaten into particular chowlines by someone else with an air of authority, from weight-loss guru to restaurant reviewer. 2007 January 10, Anne Mendelson, “At the Temples of Food, an Outsider’s Look at the Sacred Texts”, in New York Times:
   • ...men who had grown up in a world of dogtags, chowlines and mass organization. 1974, Victor C Ferkiss, The future of technological civilization:

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