chophouse

noun

Etymology: From chop + house. For Chinese customs sense, see chop (“quality”).

1. 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.”

   “But franchisers don't sell many of their thirty-three billion hamburgers per year in blue highway towns where chophouses must draw customers through continuing quality rather than national advertising.”

2. Any restaurant.
3. 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.”