chicken

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chicken definition


  1. n.
    a coward. : Come on, let's go. Don't be a chicken.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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chicken

In addition to the idioms beginning with chicken, also see count one's chickens; go to bed with (the chickens); like a chicken with its head cut off; no spring chicken.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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