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noun
A Chinese-American food, a hamburger bun filled with chow mein and slathered with a brown sauce.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US
Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
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History
From chow mein + bun. Coined in the 1930s, having been invented in Massachusetts, and then spread throughout North America's Americanized Chinese cuisine culture, and Americanized Jewish culture.
