chicken

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus).

   backyard chickens

2. 2
   noun

   The meat from this bird eaten as food.

   boneless chicken

3. 3
   noun

   The young of any bird; a chick.

   There they are – four ugly little chickens, a bit more than half-feathered, and all gaping mouths and bare bellies.

4. 4
   noun

   A coward.

   'Why, what a chicken you are! You are not afraid of being robbed; are you?' said Jonas.

5. 5
   noun

   A young or inexperienced person.

   Purſue your trade of ſcandal-picking, Your hints, that Stella is no chicken: Your innuendos, when you tell us, That Stella loves to talk with fellows; […]

6. 6
   noun

   A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.

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7. 7
   noun

   A kilogram of cocaine.

   Up early in the morning trappin' (Trap-trap) You can get 'em how you askin' (Ask) How many chickens? You can get 'em whichever way Nigga, trap turned Zaxby's (Zax)

8. 8
   adj

   Cowardly.

   Why do you refuse to fight? Huh, I guess you're just too chicken.

Etymology

From Middle English chiken (also as chike > English chick), from Old English ċicen, ċycen (“chicken”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *kiukīn (“chicken”), or alternatively from Proto-West Germanic *kukkīn, equivalent to cock + -en. Compare North Frisian schückling (“chicken”), Saterland Frisian Sjuuken (“chicken”), Dutch kuiken (“chick, chicken”), German Low German Küken (“chick”), whence German Küken (“chick”), (elevated, obsolete) German Küchlein (“chick”) and Old Norse kjúklingr (“chicken”).