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chicken and egg

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chick⋅en-and-egg

[chik-uhn-uhn-eg, -uhnd-]
–adjective
of, pertaining to, or being a dilemma of which of two things came first or of which is the cause and which the effect: a chicken-and-egg question of whether matter or energy is the basis of the universe.
Also, chick⋅en-or-egg [chik-uhn-er-eg] .


Origin:
1955–60
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