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chicken

1. chick.en \'chik-*n\ n [ME chiken, fr. OE cicen young chicken; akin ot OE 
   cocc cock] 1a: the common domestic fowl (Gallus gallus) esp. when young; 
   also  : its flesh used used as food 1b: any of various birds or their young 
    slang  2a: a young woman  2b: COWARD  slang  3: petty esp. military detail 
   strictly enforced 
2. chicken aj slang  1: CHICKENHEARTED, CHICKEN-LIVERED  slang  2: 
   insistent or petty esp. military discipline 
3. chicken \'chik-(*-)nin\ vi or chick.en.ing slang  : to lose one's nerve 
   {~ed out before the robbery}