chicken

  1. Noun.  (countable) A domestic fowl, ''Gallus gallus'', especially when young.
  2. Noun.  (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
  3. Noun.  (context, countable) A coward.
  4. Noun.  (countable, gay slang) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair. ''Cf. chickenhawk''.
  5. Noun.  (context, countable) A young or inexperienced person.
  6. Noun.  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 loser.
  7. Noun.  The game of dare.
  8. Adjective.  cowardly.
  9. Verb.  (intransitive) To avoid as a result of fear.
  10. Verb.  (intransitive) To develop physical or other characteristics resembling a chicken's, for example, bumps on the skin.

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