Definition of "chicken"
- noun
A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young.
The meat from this bird eaten as food.
A coward.
A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair. Cf. chickenhawk.
A young or inexperienced person.
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 loser.
The game of dare.
- adjective
Cowardly.
- verb
To avoid as a result of fear.
To develop physical or other characteristics resembling a chicken's, for example, bumps on the skin.
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