Usually means: Domesticated bird, commonly kept, eaten.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. chicken: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. chicken: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chicken: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chicken: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chicken: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chicken, chicken: Wordnik
  7. chicken: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Chicken, chicken: Wiktionary
  9. chicken: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. chicken: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. chicken: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Chicken, chicken: Dictionary.com
  13. chicken: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. chicken: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. CHICKEN (Scheme implementation), Chicken (Ednaswap EP), Chicken (Scheme implementation), Chicken (dance), Chicken (disambiguation), Chicken (food), Chicken (game), Chicken (gay slang), Chicken (meat), Chicken (video game), Chicken, The Chicken (dance), The Chicken (film), The Chicken (music): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Chicken: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. chicken: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. chicken: Rhymezone
  19. chicken: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. chicken: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Chicken: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. Chicken: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. chicken: Free Dictionary
  24. chicken: ESL Idiom Page
  25. chicken: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. chicken: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  27. chicken: Dictionary/thesaurus
  28. chicken: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chicken (Domestic), chicken: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chicken (Domestic), chicken: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. CHICKEN: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. chicken: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. chicken: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. chicken: ESL Slang page

(Note: See chickened as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus), especially so-called when young.
noun:  (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
noun:  (archaic) The young of any bird; a chick.
noun:  (countable, slang) A coward.
noun:  (countable, slang) A young or inexperienced person.
noun:  (countable, Polari) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.
noun:  (uncountable) The game of dare.
noun:  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).
noun:  A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.
noun:  (slang, US) A kilogram of cocaine.
noun:  (obsolete) A small pewter pot used in a tavern.
adjective:  (informal) Cowardly.
verb:  (intransitive) To avoid a situation one is afraid of.
noun:  A census-designated place in Alaska.

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