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^[1], volume 47, number 1/2, page 31