chicken : Idioms & Phrases

• noun rice and chicken cooked together with or without other ingredients and variously seasoned
  

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• noun abnormal protrusion of the breastbone caused by rickets
  pigeon breast.
  

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• noun a stock made with chicken
  chicken broth.
  

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• noun chicken casserole prepared with tomatoes and mushrooms and herbs in the Italian style
  chicken cacciatore; chicken cacciatora.
  

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• noun chicken casserole prepared with tomatoes and mushrooms and herbs in the Italian style
  chicken cacciatore; chicken cacciatora.
  

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• noun chicken cooked and served in a casserole
  

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• a contagious disease of fowls; so called because first studied during the prevalence of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true cholera.

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• noun a farm building for housing poultry
  hencoop; coop; henhouse.
  

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• noun thin slices of chicken stuffed with cheese and ham and then sauteed
  

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• noun the lower joint of the leg of a chicken
  chicken drumstick.
  

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• noun farm where chickens are raised for sale
  

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• noun dry mash for poultry
  scratch.
  
• noun an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
  methamphetamine; trash; shabu; ice; chalk; glass; crank; Methedrine; meth; methamphetamine hydrochloride; deoxyephedrine.
  

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• noun nontechnical term for any hawks said to prey on poultry
  hen hawk.
  

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• noun pounded chicken cutlets rolled around butter (that has been seasoned with herbs) and then covered with crumbs and fried
  

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• noun the lower joint of the leg of a chicken
  chicken drumstick.
  

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• noun a fictional character who was hit on the head with an acorn and believed that the sky was falling
  

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• noun liver of a chicken used as meat
  

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• noun a louse parasitic on poultry
  Menopon palladum; shaft louse; Menopon gallinae.
  

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• noun chicken excreta used as fertilizer
  

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• noun braised chicken with onions and mushrooms in a wine and tomato sauce
  

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• noun mousse made with chicken
  

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• verb remove oneself from an obligation
  back down; back off; pull out; bow out.
  
  • He bowed out when he heard how much work was involved

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• noun chicken simmered in broth with onions and paprika then mixed with sour cream
  chicken paprika.
  

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• noun chicken simmered in broth with onions and paprika then mixed with sour cream
  chicken paprika.
  

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Chick"en pox"

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1. (Med.) A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella.

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• noun chicken cooked in a sauce made with tomatoes, garlic, and olive oil
  

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• noun thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game; southern U.S.
  poilu; purloo.
  

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• noun intestinal parasite of domestic fowl
  Ascaridia galli.
  

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• noun an enclosed yard for keeping poultry
  hen yard; fowl run; chicken run.
  

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• noun salad composed primarily of chopped chicken meat
  

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• noun a sandwich made with a filling of sliced chicken
  

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• noun cramped or illegible handwriting
  

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• noun large North American snake
  

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• noun soup made from chicken broth
  

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• noun a stew made with chicken
  

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• noun a stock made with chicken
  chicken broth.
  

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• noun a taco with a chicken filling
  

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• noun chicken prepared in a cream sauce with mushrooms and served over pasta; usually topped with cheese
  

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• noun the wing of a chicken
  

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• noun a galvanized wire network with a hexagonal mesh; used to build fences
  

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• noun an enclosed yard for keeping poultry
  hen yard; fowl run; chicken run.
  

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• adjective satellite having a chest deformity marked by a projecting breastbone caused by infantile rickets
  pigeon-breasted.
  

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Chick"en-breast`ed adjective

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1. Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.

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• verb fight while sitting on somebody's shoulders
  chickenfight.
  

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Chick"en-heart`ed adjective

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1. Timid; fearful; cowardly. Bunyan.

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• noun the most common variety of prairie chicken
  Tympanuchus cupido.
  

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• noun chicken casserole prepared with tomatoes and mushrooms and herbs in the Italian style
  chicken cacciatore; chicken cacciatora.
  

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• noun a smaller prairie chicken of western Texas
  Tympanuchus pallidicinctus.
  

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• noun chicken fried than oven-baked and served with milk gravy
  

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• noun medium-sized storm petrel
  Mother Carey's hen; Oceanites oceanicus.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small petrels, as the stormy petrel (Procellaria pelagica), and Leach's petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa), both of the Atlantic, and O. furcata of the North Pacific.

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• noun small mostly white vulture of Africa and southern Eurasia
  Egyptian vulture; Neophron percnopterus.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the gier-eagle, or Egyptian vulture; so called because often sculpured on Egyptian monuments. It is nearly white in color.

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• noun brown mottled North American grouse of western prairies
  prairie grouse; prairie fowl.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any American grouse of the genus Tympanuchus, especially T. Americanus (formerly T. cupido), which inhabits the prairies of the central United States. Applied also to the sharp-tailed grouse.

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• noun a young person (especially a young man or boy)
  youth; young person; younker.
  
• noun a young chicken having tender meat
  

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Wa"ter chick"en

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1. (Zoöl.) The common American gallinule.

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