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chicken

/ˈt͡ʃɪkɪn/ noun A1
  1. A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus). (countable) · backyard chickens· barnyard chickens
  2. The meat from this bird eaten as food. (uncountable) · boneless chicken· tastes like chicken
  3. A coward. (countable, slang) · (More commonly used as an adjective with this sense; see below.)
  4. A young or inexperienced person. (countable, slang)
  5. A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk. (countable)
  6. The game of dare. (uncountable)
  7. 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). (countable, uncountable) · Don't play chicken with a freight train; you're guaranteed to lose.
  8. A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated. (countable, uncountable)

Plural chickens

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Bennet had no more to say; and Lady Lucas, who had been long yawning at the repetition of delights which she saw no likelihood of sharing, was left to the comforts of cold ham and chicken.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 115 · B2
There were also pretty little barns, with china fences around them; and many cows and sheep and horses and pigs and chickens, all made of china, were standing about in groups.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 129 · B2
“It beats anything I have seen, and I am no chicken.”
A Study in Scarlet, p. 29 · B2
Diana found it out in the woods behind their chicken house.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 91 · C1

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