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chicken
noun- a woman US
- Three of the groping, licking, grinding pairs of cops and chickens had managed everything but penetration. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Glitter Dome, p. 2, 1981
- a boy, usually under the age of consent, who is the target of homosexual advances US, 1914
- — Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 49, 1949
- — Donald Webster Cory and John P. LeRoy, The Homosexual and His Society, p. 262, 1963: “A lexicon of homosexual slang”
- — Florida Legislative Investigation Committee (Johns Committee), Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida, 1964: “Glossary of homosexual terms and deviate acts”
- — Dale Gordon, The Dominion Sex Dictionary, p. 43, 1967
- The drug-pitch skells would rather tear off with a wallet than transact an actual exchange, and they make the teenage chicken fags seem like the most discreet commodity on the street. — Josh Alan Friedman, Tales of Times Square, p. 51, 1986
- Like seeing a big new car with Ohio plates come driving up in front of that skinny little ten-year-old chicken selling his tender ass for a night’s bed and board — Robert Campbell, Alice in La-La Land, p. 9, 1987
- And feature–him and that bottle-blond fruitcake are porking in trailers every chance they get, and chasing chicken down at the Fern Dell toilets. — James Ellroy, White Jazz, p. 59, 1992
- — Paul Baker, Polari, p. 168, 2002
- a child, a youthful or inexperienced person; often as an affectionate form of address UK, 1711
- a young male prostitute UK, 1988
- — John Ayto, Oxford Dictionary of Slang, p. 85, 1998
- Many many times in my chicken career, women want me naked while they’re fully clothed. — David Sterry, Chicken, p. 41, 2002
- someone under the legal drinking age US
- — Judi Sanders, Cal Poly Slang, p. 2, 1990
- used as a term of endearment IRELAND
- I know chicken, I know, but dat’s [that’s] all behind ye [you] now, ye’re doin’ great. — Donal Ruane, Tales In a Rear View Mirror, p. 114, 2003
- a test of wills in which two cars drive directly at each other until one driver – the loser – veers off course US, 1952
- Below in “chicken” drivers race at each other; first to turn aside is “chicken.” — Whisper Magazine, p. 23, May 1950: Flaming Youth Rides Again
- — Michael Innes, Appleby Plays Chicken, 1956
- I used to play “chicken” on Miceltorena when I was a kid. Rebel Without A Cause had just come out and chicken was in. — James Ellroy, Blood on the Moon, p. 160, 1984
- a coward US, 1936
From the characteristics ascribed to the best of “chickens;” in an earlier sense, found in Shakespeare, the meaning is “someone timorous and defenceless.” - marijuana US
- — Jim Emerson-Cobb, Scratching the Dragon, April 1997
- a small halibut US
Alaskan usage. - — Jim Crotty, How to Talk American, p. 5, 1997
▷see:CHICKENPERCH- 11US
- Sunny put me in charge of making a chicken out of her, and I was taking my responsibility seriously. — David Henry Sterry, Chicken, p. 153, 2002
▶ no chicken; no spring chicken
no longer young UK, 1860- He’s no spring chicken but 33 isn’t that old for a defender. — Guardian, 26 April 2002
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