chicken

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus).

   • backyard chickens
   • barnyard chickens
   • Some chickens lay eggs almost every day. […] Chickens are kept for their meat, too.
2. 2

   The meat from this bird eaten as food.

   • boneless chicken
   • tastes like chicken
3. 3

   The young of any bird

   The young of any bird; a chick.

   • There they are – four ugly little chickens, a bit more than half-feathered, and all gaping mouths and bare bellies.
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   1. 4

      A coward.

      • 'Why, what a chicken you are! You are not afraid of being robbed; are you?' said Jonas.
      • Then he had an inspiration. "There is Roxton," said he. "He's not a chicken, but he is a useful man in a row. I think I could get him."
      • Chicken! Fight like a robot!
   2. 5

      A young or inexperienced person.

      • Purſue your trade of ſcandal-picking, Your hints, that Stella is no chicken: Your innuendos, when you tell us, That Stella loves to talk with fellows; […]
      • "This case will make a stir, sir," he remarked. "It beats anything I have seen, and I am no chicken."
   3. 6

      A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair

      A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.

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      • I am a little white chicken, beautiful as sweet and young as beautiful and soft as young and gay as soft and innocent as gay. I dare you to write.
   4. 7

      The game of dare.

   5. 8

      A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.

   6. 9

      A kilogram of cocaine.

      • Up early in the morning trappin' (Trap-trap) You can get 'em how you askin' (Ask) How many chickens? You can get 'em whichever way Nigga, trap turned Zaxby's (Zax)
   7. 10

      A small pewter pot used in a tavern.

   8. 11

      Cowardly.

      • Why do you refuse to fight? Huh, I guess you're just too chicken.
   9. 12

      To avoid a situation one is afraid of.

      • For the umpteenth time, I chickened.
      • ABE: What are you chucking it for, then? You're running, aren't you? Running, cos you chickened. SLIM: All right, so I chickened.
   10. 13

       plural of chick

       • The 21 or 22 day the Chicken are hatch'd; […]
   11. 14

       A census-designated place in Alaska.

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