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chicken

DOMESTICATED BIRD KEPT BY HUMANS PRIMARILY AS A FOOD SOURCE

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1) Term of endearnment for co-worker, often used in its plural form in relation to team.
Chickens, time for the meeting....
2) Used to describe someone who runs around doing things, but doesn't understand why (running around like a chicken with its head cut off).
Emphasis in a sentence dictates the intensity (like fuggetabout it).
He's such a chicken!

chicken

DOMESTICATED BIRD KEPT BY HUMANS PRIMARILY AS A FOOD SOURCE

(chickens, chickening, chickened)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

Chickens are birds which are kept on a farm for their eggs and for their meat.

Lionel built a coop so that they could raise chickens and have a supply of fresh eggs.

...free-range chickens.

= hen

N-COUNT

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Chicken is the flesh of this bird eaten as food.

...roast chicken with wild mushrooms.

...chicken soup.

N-UNCOUNT

If someone calls you a chicken, they mean that you are afraid to do something. (INFORMAL)

I'm scared of the dark. I'm a big chicken.

= coward

N-COUNT [disapproval]

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Chicken is also an adjective.

Why are you so chicken, Gregory?

ADJ: v-link ADJ

If you say that someone is counting their chickens, you mean that they are assuming that they will be successful or get something, when this is not certain.

I don't want to count my chickens before they are hatched.

PHRASE: V inflects

If you describe a situation as a chicken and egg situation, you mean that it is impossible to decide which of two things caused the other one.

It's a chicken and egg situation. Does the deficiency lead to the eczema or has the eczema led to certain deficiencies?

PHRASE: PHR n

chickens come home to roost: see roost

chicken

DOMESTICATED BIRD KEPT BY HUMANS PRIMARILY AS A FOOD SOURCE

¦ noun

1. a domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one.

2. informal a coward.

a game in which the first person to lose their nerve and withdraw from a dangerous situation is the loser.

¦ adjective informal cowardly.

¦ verb (chicken out) informal be too scared to do something.

Phrases

chicken-and-egg denoting a situation in which each of two things appears to be necessary to the other. [from the question 'Which came first, the chicken or the egg?']

like a headless chicken informal in a panic-stricken and unthinking manner.

Origin

OE cicen, cy?cen, of Gmc origin; prob. related to cock¹.

Wikipedia

Chicken (disambiguation)

Chicken is a type of domesticated bird.

Chicken, chickens, or the chicken may also refer to:

Chicken (food)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken (disambiguation)

Pronunciation examples for chicken

1. Chicken.

Sunshine (2007)

2. -Chicken.

FoodCorps - Raising Adventurous Eaters _ Curt Ellis _ Talks at Google

3. Chicken.

Jet Tila _ Live Cooking Demo _ Talks Google

4. >> : Chicken?

uestlove _ Amir Thompson _ Talks at Google

5. chicken.

Oh, Hello on Broadway _ Nick Kroll, John Mulaney + More _ Talks at Google

Examples of use of chicken

1. Frozen chicken breasts and chicken Kiev replace frozen roasting chicken and chicken thighs.

2. The big supermarkets sell more than 230 different kinds of chicken products – from chicken soup to chicken curries and chicken pies to barbecue drumsticks.

3. They include "chicken cordon bleu," "chicken Kiev," or chicken breasts stuffed with cheese, vegetables or other items.

4. A meal of Chicken Select and Chicken Nuggets was super–sized by 33% (for the chicken) and sliced from NIS 38 to NIS 37.50.

5. The third level is life itself: "People don‘t buy organic chicken and regular chicken.