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Chicken

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Noun

1. chicken, poulet, volaille

the flesh of a chicken used for food

2. chicken, gallus gallus

a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl

3. chicken, crybaby, wimp

a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy

4. chicken

a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops

Adjective

5. chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied

easily frightened

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Chicken

see synonyms of chicken
noun
1. 
a domestic fowl bred for its flesh or eggs, esp a young one
2. 
the flesh of such a bird used for food
3. 
any of various similar birds, such as a prairie chicken
4. slang
a cowardly person
5. slang
a young inexperienced person
6. slang
an underage boy or girl regarded as a potential target for sexual abuse
7. informal
any of various, often dangerous, games or challenges in which the object is to make one's opponent lose his or her nerve
8.  count one's chickens before they are hatched
9.  like a headless chicken
10.  no chicken
adjective
11. slang
easily scared; cowardly; timid

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Chicken

see synonyms of chicken
noun
1. 
a common gallinaceous farm bird (Gallus domesticus) raised for its edible eggs or flesh; hen or rooster, esp. a young one: classed in a family (Phasianidae) that includes pheasants, quail, and peafowl
2. 
the flesh of this bird
3. 
any young bird; chick
4. 
a young or inexperienced person
5.  Slang
a. 
a timid or cowardly person
b. 
a young male homosexual
6.  Slang Mil
petty insistence on rules
adjective
7. 
made of chicken
chicken croquettes
8. 
small and tender
a chicken lobster
9.  Slang
timid or cowardly
10.  US, Slang Mil
characterized by unnecessary discipline or pettiness
verb intransitive US
11.  Slang
to lose courage and abandon a plan or action
usually with out

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Chicken

see synonyms of chicken
n.
1.
a. A common domesticated fowl (Gallus domesticus) widely raised for meat and eggs and believed to be descended from the jungle fowl G. gallus.
b. Any of various similar or related birds.
c. The flesh of the chicken, used as food.
2. Slang A coward.
3. Any of various foolhardy competitions in which the participants persist in a dangerous course of action until one loses nerve and stops.
4. Vulgar Slang A young gay male, especially as sought by an older man.
adj.
Slang
Afraid; cowardly.
intr.v. chick·ened, chick·en·ing, chick·ens
Slang
To act in a cowardly manner; lose one's nerve: chickened out at the last moment.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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