chicken

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chicken

1. noun, informal A game or challenge, especially a dangerous one, the loser of which being the first person to yield or lose their nerve. There was a group of boys that liked to play chicken on the train tracks, until one of them got his foot stuck and died. The two cars sped toward the cliff in a deadly game of chicken, with bragging rights going to whomever managed to get the closest to the edge without turning.
2. noun, slang A coward. Sometimes used as a term of address. Don't be such a chicken! Everybody fudges their tax returns a little bit. A: "There's no way I'm sneaking out to go to some party." B: "Chicken!"
3. noun, dated slang A young or inexperienced person. I'm no chicken, son. I've been at this work for over a decade! She may adopt a sagacious demeanor, but at 25, she is still a mere chicken.
4. adjective, slang Cowardly; ignobly fearful. Oh, you're just chicken! Afraid of what the big, bad principal will do to you for cutting class.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

chicken

n. a coward. Come on, let’s go. Don’t be a chicken.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (one's) (hand)writing is like chicken scratch
  • a chicken and egg situation/problem
  • a chicken in every pot
  • a chicken-and-egg problem
  • a chicken-and-egg situation
  • a goner
  • be no spring chicken
  • be running around like a headless chicken
  • be up with the chickens
  • beat the dummy
  • chicken
  • chicken and egg
  • chicken feed
  • chicken fillet
  • chicken out
  • chicken out of (something)
  • chicken out of something
  • chicken out on
  • chicken out on (one)
  • chicken powder
  • chicken-hearted
  • chickens come home to roost
  • chickens come home to roost, one's
  • choke the chicken
  • count chickens before they hatch
  • count one's chickens before they hatch
  • count your chickens
  • count your chickens before they hatch
  • count your chickens before they're hatched
  • curses, like chickens, come home to roost
  • don't count your chickens
  • don't count your chickens before they hatch
  • Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
  • Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.
  • for chicken feed
  • for peanuts
  • get up with the chickens
  • go to bed with
  • go to bed with the chickens
  • have (hand)writing like chicken scratch
  • If it ain't chickens, it's feathers
  • like a chicken with its head cut off
  • like a chicken with its head cut off, (run about)
  • like a chicken with the pip
  • like a headless chicken
  • Mother Carey is plucking her chickens
  • no chicken
  • no spring chicken
  • no spring chicken, (she's)
  • not count your chickens
  • one day chicken and the next day feathers
  • rubber chicken dinner
  • run about like a headless chicken
  • run around like a chicken with its head cut off
  • run around like a chicken with its head cut off and run in circles
  • run around like a headless chicken
  • running about like a headless chicken
  • spring chicken
  • the chickens are coming home to roost
  • up with the chickens
  • wake up with the chickens
  • when chickens have teeth
  • Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
  • yellow-bellied chicken
  • you're chicken
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