new england clam chowder

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   a thick chowder made with clams and potatoes and onions and salt pork and milk

   Broaderclam chowder

Questions about new england clam chowder

What does new england clam chowder mean?

new england clam chowder means "a thick chowder made with clams and potatoes and onions and salt pork and milk".

Is new england clam chowder a common word?

new england clam chowder 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.