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Poultry vs. Chicken

Poultry and Chicken Definitions

Poultry

Domesticated fowl, such as chickens, turkeys, ducks, or geese, raised for meat or eggs.

Chicken

A common domesticated fowl (Gallus domesticus) widely raised for meat and eggs and believed to be descended from the jungle fowl G. gallus.

Poultry

Domestic fowl (e.g. chickens, ducks, turkeys, and geese) raised for food (either meat or eggs).
A poultry farmer

Chicken

Any of various similar or related birds.

Poultry

The meat from a domestic fowl.
The poultry counter

Chicken

The flesh of the chicken, used as food.
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Poultry

Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese.

Chicken

(Slang) A coward.

Poultry

A domesticated gallinaceous bird though to be descended from the red jungle fowl

Chicken

Any of various foolhardy competitions in which the participants persist in a dangerous course of action until one loses nerve and stops.

Poultry

Flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food

Chicken

Vulgar Slang A young gay male, especially as sought by an older man.
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Chicken

Afraid; cowardly.

Chicken

To act in a cowardly manner; lose one's nerve
Chickened out at the last moment.

Chicken

(countable) A domesticated species of junglefowl (usually, Gallus gallus; sometimes, Gallus gallus domesticus or Gallus domesticus), especially so-called when young.

Chicken

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

Chicken

(archaic) The young of any bird; a chick.

Chicken

A coward.
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Chicken

A young or inexperienced person.

Chicken

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

Chicken

The game of dare.

Chicken

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.

Chicken

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

Chicken

 A kilogram of cocaine.

Chicken

Plural of chick

Chicken

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

Chicken

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

Chicken

A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.

Chicken

A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden; same as spring chicken.

Chicken

The flesh of a chicken used for food

Chicken

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

Chicken

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

Chicken

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

Chicken

Easily frightened

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