chow gun

English

Alternative forms
  • chow-gun

Noun

chow gun (plural chow guns)

  1. (US military slang, 1910s–1930s) A field kitchen on wheels.

References
  • Lighter, Jonathan (1972) “The Slang of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, 1917-1919: An Historical Glossary”, in American Speech‎, volume 47, number 1/2, page 31
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