chicken
(Q780)A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl ((subspecies)), especially so-called when young.
The meat from this bird eaten as food.
(archaic) The young of any bird; a chick.
(derogatory) A coward.
(derogatory) A young or inexperienced person.
(Polari) A young, attractive, slim man,(text=CHICKEN: young homosexual) usually having little body hair; ''compare'' (chickenhawk).
The game of dare.
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).
A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.
(obsolete) A small pewter pot used in a tavern.
(derogatory) Cowardly.
To avoid a situation one is afraid of.
(obsolete) (chick)