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词组 chickenfeed
释义 chickenfeed
noun
  1. a less than generous amount of money US, 1836
    • — Marcus Hanna Boulware, Jive and Slang of Students in Negro Colleges, 1947
    • He comes from one of the few states where there is no gangsterism except in picayune city and county affairs, and in those the Republicans share the chicken-feed rewards. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 195, 1951
    • Harry would turn up his nose and say: “Chickenfeed. Not interested.” — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 101, 1956
  2. a task that can be accomplished with ridiculous ease SINGAPORE
    • — Paik Choo, The Coxford Singlish Dictionary, p. 29, 2002
  3. methamphetamine US
    • She believes crystals are a form of Methedrine and that “they’re called chicken feed because they’re actually given to chickens.” — San Francisco News Call Bulletin, p. 3, 17 February 1964
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