chophouse means an inexpensive restaurant that specializes in chops or steaks; a steakhouse. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.
Etymology
From chop + house. For Chinese customs sense, see chop (“quality”).
noun
- An inexpensive restaurant that specializes in chops or steaks; a steakhouse.“Temple & his Brother & I dined in their chambers where we had dinner brought thinking it a more genteel & agreable way than in a Chophouse.”
- Any restaurant.
- A custom house in China where transit duties are levied.“the South Chop-house on the southern shore of the river bears S.S.W.”