1a domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one:rationing was still in force and most people kept chickens
[mass noun] meat from a chicken:roast chicken
2 [mass noun] informal a game in which the first person to lose their nerve and withdraw from a dangerous situation is the loser:he was killed by a car after he lay in the road playing chicken
[count noun] a coward.
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Universal
withdraw from or fail in something through lack of nerve:the referee chickened out of giving a penalty
chicken-and-egg
denoting a situation in which each of two things appears to be necessary to the other:it’s a chicken-and-egg situation where men don’t come forward because there’s no research to report and until they come forward research isn’t forthcoming
