- 1[countable] a large bird that is often kept for its eggs or meat They keep chickens in the back yard. free-range chickens compare cock, hen
- 2[uncountable] meat from a chicken fried/roast chicken chicken stock/soup chicken breasts/livers/thighs chicken and dumplings see spring chicken Idioms
a situation in which it is difficult to tell which one of two things was the cause of the other
used to say that if someone says or does something bad or wrong, it will affect them badly in the future
you should not be too confident that something will be successful, because something may still go wrong
to play a game in which people do something dangerous for as long as they can to show how brave they are. The person who stops first has lost the game. The children had been playing chicken by running across the railway line.
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