chili con carne

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   ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans

   Synonymschili

   Broaderdish

   Mexico

Questions about chili con carne

What does chili con carne mean?

chili con carne means "ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans".

What is another word for chili con carne?

Close synonyms include chili. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chili con carne a common word?

chili con carne is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.