Chicken vs. Poker

Chicken vs. Poker — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Chicken and Poker

Chickennoun

(countable) A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young.

Pokernoun

A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.

Chickennoun

(uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.

Pokernoun

(historical) A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.

Chickennoun

A coward.

Pokernoun

One who pokes.

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Chickennoun

A young or inexperienced person.

Pokernoun

A kind of duck, the pochard.

Chickennoun

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

Pokernoun

Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing cards, the players in sequence make tactical bets or drop out, the bets forming a pool to be taken either by the sole remaining player or, after all rounds and bets have been completed, by those remaining players who hold a superior hand according to a standard ranking of hand values for the game.

Chickennoun

The game of dare.

Pokernoun

(poker) All the four cards of the same rank.

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Chickennoun

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 chicken (that is, the loser.)

Don't play chicken with a freight train; you're guaranteed to lose.

Pokernoun

Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.

Chickennoun

A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.

Pokernoun

fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire

Chickenadjective

(informal) Cowardly.

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

Pokernoun

any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand

Chickenverb

(intransitive) To avoid a situation one is afraid of.

Chickennoun

the flesh of a chicken used for food

Chickennoun

a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl

Chickennoun

a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy

Chickennoun

a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops

Chickenadjective

easily frightened