An eating-house where chops and steaks are served.
“John Bull … would set up a chop-house at the very gates of paradise.”—Washington Irving: vol. i. chap. vi. p. 61.
⁂ A Chinese custom-house is called a Chop-house (Hindu, chap, a stamp).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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