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chicken


Definition: Meaning of, chicken in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈtʃɪkɪn /

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  1. [countable] a common farm bird that is kept for its meat and eggs [↪  hen, cock, rooster, chick]
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  2. [uncountable] the meat from this bird eaten as food
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  3. [countable] informal someone who is not at all brave [=  coward]
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  4. [uncountable] a game in which children do something dangerous, for example stand on a railway line when a train is coming, and try to be the one who continues doing it for the longest time
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  5. which came first, the chicken or the egg? used to say that it is difficult or impossible to decide which of two things happened first, or which action is the cause and which is the effect
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  6. a chicken and egg situation/problem etc a situation in which it is impossible to decide which of two things happened first, or which action is the cause and which is the effect
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  7. somebody's chickens have come home to roost used to say that someone's bad or dishonest actions in the past have caused the problems that they have now
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[not before noun] [informal]
  1. not brave enough to do something [=  cowardly]
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chicken used in phrases

  • Chicken Little
    1. a story for children in which a chicken called Chicken Little thinks that the sky is falling and persuades many other animal friends that great danger is coming
  • Maryland chicken (noun)
    1. chicken fried than oven-baked and served with milk gravy
  • Mother Carey's chicken (noun)
    1. medium-sized storm petrel
  • Pharaoh's chicken (noun)
    1. small mostly white vulture of Africa and southern Eurasia
  • broiler chicken (noun)
    1. a chicken that is suitable to be cooked by broiling
  • chicken Kiev (noun)
    1. that has been seasoned with herbs pounded chicken cutlets rolled around butter and then covered with crumbs and fried
  • chicken Marengo (noun)
    1. braised chicken with onions and mushrooms in a wine and tomato sauce
  • chicken Tetrazzini (noun)
    1. chicken prepared in a cream sauce with mushrooms and served over pasta; usually topped with cheese
  • chicken and rice (noun)
    1. rice and chicken cooked together with or without other ingredients and variously seasoned
  • chicken breast (noun)
    1. abnormal protrusion of the breastbone caused by rickets
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