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chicken
  1. (countable) A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young.
  2. (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
  3. (countable, slang) A coward.
  4. (countable, slang) A young or inexperienced person.
  5. (Polari) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.
  6. The game of dare.
    1. A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the chicken (that is, the loser.)
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  8. Examples:
    1. “One morning, I discovered a chicken wandering in the yard, long striped feathers trailing from its tail, a gold head and rump, deep blue wings, and a body as red as cherries.”
      “What's wrong, McFly? Are you a chicken?”
chicklet
  1. A small or young chick.
  2. (informal) A young woman.
  3. (Internet) an RSS feed subscription button (sometimes spelled chiclet).
chick
  1. A young bird.
  2. A young chicken.
  3. (term of endearment) A young child.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “After the chick hatches, both parents participate in its feeding and care for 6-7 months until it fledges and starts to fly.”
      “They're not going to believe that this blonde chick was just a rando, and an innocent rando at that.”
chickenry
  1. Misspelling of chicanery.
  2. (rare, countable) A hen house or chicken coop, a place in which chickens are reared.
chickenburger
  1. A hot sandwich made of a patty of chicken in a bun, often with other ingredients.
  2. The chicken patty used in such a sandwich.
chickabiddy
  1. (childish) A chicken or similar bird.
  2. Term of endearment for a young child.
  3. Examples:
    1. “The Hen had quite little, short legs, and therefore she was called chickabiddy Short-shanks.”
      “Here, upon the ancestral ashes cemented with the glorious blood poured out like water on the plains of chickabiddy Lick.”
      “Hurry up, chickabiddy, there is somebody here you would like to see.”
chicky
  1. (childish) Chicken.
  2. (childish) Chick (young bird).
  3. Examples:
    1. “The play has two characters, upper class Mrs Holbrook and charwoman, Mrs Chicky.”
      Chicky Ryan lives in Stoneybridge, a wild paradise on the coast of Ireland.”
      Chicky Ryan lives in Stoneybridge, a beautiful but wet and wild paradise on the west coast of Ireland.”
chick
  1. (India, Pakistan) A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “After the chick hatches, both parents participate in its feeding and care for 6-7 months until it fledges and starts to fly.”
      “They're not going to believe that this blonde chick was just a rando, and an innocent rando at that.”
chickenfurter
  1. A food resembling a frankfurter but made with chicken.
chickling
chicklin
  1. Eye dialect spelling of chickling.
chicking
  1. Eye dialect spelling of chicken.
chiclet
  1. Alternative form of chicklet (Internet button)
  2. Examples:
    1. “At the best of times it's difficult to type on a chiclet keyboard.”
chickdom
  1. (informal) The world or sphere of chicks (young women).
chickhood
  1. The period of being a chick (young bird).
chickenburgers
  1. plural of chickenburger
chickenfurters
  1. plural of chickenfurter
chickabiddies
  1. plural of chickabiddy
chicklings
chickenries
  1. plural of chickenry
chicklets
  1. plural of chicklet
chicklins
  1. plural of chicklin
chickings
  1. plural of chicking
chickens
chickies
  1. plural of chickie
chiclets
  1. plural of chiclet
chicks
  1. plural of chick
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The chicks will arrive on Salisbury Plain on June 23 and spend a month in quarantine before moving to a large enclosure.”
      “There were more of those girls than there were little waif heroin-looking chicks.”
      “Male chicks from selectively bred egg-laying strains are not suitable for meat production and so are killed at one to three days old.”
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