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Chicken

ˈtʃɪk(ɪ)n

Chicken definitions
noun
chicken chickens
  1. a domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one

    "rationing was still in force and most people kept chickens"

    • meat from a chicken

      "roast chicken"

  2. a cowardly person; a coward
    • a game in which the first person to lose their nerve and withdraw from a dangerous situation is the loser

      "he lay in the road playing chicken"

adjective
chicken
  1. cowardly

    "I was too chicken to go to court"

    easily frightened lacking courage fearful apprehensive afraid frightened scared faint-hearted
verb
chicken chickened chickening chickens
  1. withdraw from or fail in something through lack of nerve

    "the referee chickened out of giving a penalty"