chicken

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