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chicken
[ chik-uhn ]
noun
- a domestic fowl, Gallus domesticus, descended from various jungle fowl, especially the red jungle fowl, and developed in a number of breeds for its flesh, eggs, and feathers.
- the young of this bird, especially when less than a year old.
- the flesh of the chicken, especially of the young bird, used as food.
- Slang.
- a cowardly or fearful person.
- a young or inexperienced person, especially a young girl.
- petty details or tasks.
- unnecessary discipline or regulations.
- a young gay male, especially one sought as a sexual partner by older men.
- a contest in which two cars approach each other at high speed down the center of a road, the object being to force one's opponent to veer away first.
- a policy or strategy of challenging an opponent to risk a clash or yield:
diplomats playing chicken at the conference table.
adjective
- (of food) containing, made from, or having the flavor of chicken:
chicken salad; chicken soup.
- Slang.
- petty or trivial:
a chicken regulation.
- obsessed with petty details, regulations, etc.:
He's quitting this chicken outfit to become his own boss.
verb phrase
- Slang.
- to refrain from doing something because of fear or cowardice:
I chickened out when I saw how deep the water was.
- to renege or withdraw:
You can't chicken out of this business deal now.
chicken
/ ˈ³Ùʃɪ°ìɪ²Ô /
noun
- a domestic fowl bred for its flesh or eggs, esp a young one
- the flesh of such a bird used for food
- any of various similar birds, such as a prairie chicken
- slang.a cowardly person
- slang.a young inexperienced person
- slang.an underage boy or girl regarded as a potential target for sexual abuse
- informal.any of various, often dangerous, games or challenges in which the object is to make one's opponent lose his nerve
- count one's chickens before they are hatchedto be overoptimistic in acting on expectations which are not yet fulfilled
- like a headless chicken informal.disorganized and uncontrolled
- no chicken or no spring chicken slang.no longer young
she's no chicken
adjective
- slang.easily scared; cowardly; timid
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of chicken1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of chicken1
Idioms and Phrases
- count one's chickens before they are hatched, to rely on a benefit that is still uncertain:
They were already spending wildly, in anticipation of their inheritance, counting their chickens before they were hatched.
More idioms and phrases containing chicken
- count one's chickens
- go to bed with (the chickens)
- like a chicken with its head cut off
- no spring chicken
Example Sentences
Beijing doesn't seem too worried about looking elsewhere for more chicken, pork and sorghum and – at the same time – it knows it is whacking the US president right in his heartland.
Halili and Reitsma don't wear aprons or pose with backyard chickens, but their content still belongs to the same social media universe as "tradwife" podcasts and similar propaganda for womanly submission.
Nor was it ever used in vaccines against chicken pox, polio or pneumonia.
Trump might even show up for that plate of rubber chicken since Schulz happily hosted him on his podcast.
That includes everything and anything from your typical charcuterie boards to more creative mini meal boards — like a baked potato board or a buffalo wing board complete with chicken wings and crudités.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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