"chow down" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-chow down.ogg Forms: chows down [present, singular, third-person], chowing down [participle, present], chowed down [participle, past], chowed down [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} chow down (third-person singular simple present chows down, present participle chowing down, simple past and past participle chowed down)
  1. (informal, intransitive) To eat, especially to eat vigorously. Tags: informal, intransitive Synonyms: dig in, eat up, fall to Translations (to eat vigorously): gueuletonner (French), becqueter (French), झोडणे (jhoḍṇe) (Marathi), opierdalać [imperfective] (Polish), zajadać [imperfective] (Polish), rąbać [imperfective] (Polish), opierdolić [perfective] (Polish), ojebać [perfective] (Polish), llenar (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "to eat vigorously",
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