chicken
鸡肉,鸡类,鸡只,鸡
Related Words
Definitions
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- : a domestic fowl, Gallus domesticus, descended from various jungle fowl, especially the red jungle fowl, and developed in a number of breeds for its flesh, eggs, and feathers.
- : the young of this bird, especially when less than a year old.
- : the flesh of the chicken, especially of the young bird, used as food.
- : Slang. a cowardly or fearful person.a young or inexperienced person, especially a young girl.petty details or tasks.unnecessary discipline or regulations.a young gay male, especially one sought as a sexual partner by older men.
- : a contest in which two cars approach each other at high speed down the center of a road, the object being to force one's opponent to veer away first.
- : a policy or strategy of challenging an opponent to risk a clash or yield: diplomats playing chicken at the conference table.
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- : containing, made from, or having the flavor of chicken: chicken salad; chicken soup.
- : Slang. cowardly. petty or trivial: a chicken regulation.obsessed with petty details, regulations, etc.: He's quitting this chicken outfit to become his own boss.
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- : chicken out, Slang. to refrain from doing something because of fear or cowardice: I chickened out when I saw how deep the water was.to renege or withdraw: You can't chicken out of this business deal now.
Phrases
- chicken feed
- chicken out
- chickens come home to roost
- chicken shit
- chicken with its head cut off
- count one's chickens
- go to bed with (the chickens)
- like a chicken with its head cut off
- no spring chicken
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Frozen 2 all but drags Elsa’s queerness into the text, though it chickens out at the last minute.
Tyga launched TYGA BITES, a “celebrity-owned virtual dining concept,” aka chicken nuggets you order through Grubhub.
Swallowing eye-popping amounts of fried chicken, instant noodles and hot dogs have made these gluttons internet stars.
We tested this 20,000-BTU propane grill when we had family visiting and were able to cook enough chicken thighs and legs for six people.
Sharing the boat with a pig, a donkey, and a chicken, they set sail for the Seychelles, more than a thousand miles to the west.
Wearing the right foot of a chicken was considered good luck.
While the chicken today might be the least exotic bird one can think of, it was once a gift that wowed kings.
The chicken, to this day, is valued for its medicinal properties.
In Rome, he writes, the chicken “predicted the outcome of battles.”
Lawler is more interested in the more fascinating story of how the chicken spread.
Squinty could look out, but the slats were as close together as those in a chicken coop, and the little pig could not get out.
So Hettie put the chicken in a cage, with some wool to cover it, and fed it several times every day, till it came to know her.
Lyn was no chicken-hearted weakling, to sit down and weep unavailingly in time of peril.
Not so much, either; 'cause a chicken will stir round an' scratch a livin' out the ground, sooner 'n starve.
There was no one who could make such excellent coffee or fry a chicken so golden brown as she.