: a chew especially of tobacco
Examples of chaw in a Sentence
Verb
the farmer was intently chawing a carrot
Noun
enjoyed a chaw of tobacco
Recent Examples on the Web
Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Apr. 2022
Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 29 Mar. 2023
But civilization and its refinements have gained a foothold; tobacco chewers are spitting their chaw juices into upmarket iced tea bottles and farmers are raising llamas.
—Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2020
Both of my sons are users of smokeless tobacco (chaw).
—Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2018
Carrasco and Bauer’s first subject was infielder Jose Ramirez, who received red-lensed sunglasses, a chaw in his lip, a dangling chain and a mohawk that Carrasco sculpted by peeling back the baseball’s leather and pulling through its internal yarn.
—Ben Reiter, SI.com, 13 Sep. 2017
The man so loved his chaw that congressional pages ran fresh spittoons to his desk in relays.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 6 Jan. 2017
The book, with its cover photograph of Dykstra looking like a jack-o’-lantern with a chaw of tobacco in one cheek, will rank No.
—Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 9 July 2016
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Verb
In cooler months, a hadrosaur might chaw rotten logs to get their daily fiber—with mushrooms and insects adding a little protein to the mix.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Apr. 2022
Noun
Jose is a hard runner and always has a huge chaw in his lip.
—Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 29 Mar. 2023
But civilization and its refinements have gained a foothold; tobacco chewers are spitting their chaw juices into upmarket iced tea bottles and farmers are raising llamas.
—Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2020
Both of my sons are users of smokeless tobacco (chaw).
—Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2018
Carrasco and Bauer’s first subject was infielder Jose Ramirez, who received red-lensed sunglasses, a chaw in his lip, a dangling chain and a mohawk that Carrasco sculpted by peeling back the baseball’s leather and pulling through its internal yarn.
—Ben Reiter, SI.com, 13 Sep. 2017
The man so loved his chaw that congressional pages ran fresh spittoons to his desk in relays.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 6 Jan. 2017
The book, with its cover photograph of Dykstra looking like a jack-o’-lantern with a chaw of tobacco in one cheek, will rank No.
—Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 9 July 2016
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“Chaw.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chaw. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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