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means Food — especially the hearty, no-frills kind, and also the verb for eating it with gusto ('chow down').

from Likely from Chinese Pidgin English 'chow-chow,' a catch-all term for mixed food that traders and sailors picked up in 19th-century Chinese ports; the reduplicated form was common in pidgin for bundling miscellaneous things together. It sailed into English via sailors and immigrants, landing in American slang by the late 1800s, then got clipped down to the single punchy syllable we use today.