chow line

1. 1.

   a queue of people waiting for food to be served (especially at a military camp)

   Broaderqueue

   military

Questions about chow line

What does chow line mean?

chow line means "a queue of people waiting for food to be served (especially at a military camp)".

Is chow line a common word?

chow line is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.