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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   chicken

   • IPA[ˈCHikən]

   美式

   • n.
     a domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one；meat from a chicken
   • adj.
     cowardly
   • v.
     withdraw from or fail in something through lack of nerve

   • noun: chicken, plural noun: chickens

2. • 釋義

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. a domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one rationing was still in force and most people kept chickens
   • ▪ meat from a chicken roast chicken
   • 2. informal, derogatory a cowardly person; a coward.
   • ▪ a game in which the first person to lose nerve and withdraw from a dangerous situation is the loser.

   adj.

   形容詞

   • 1. informal cowardly they were too chicken to follow the murderers into the mountains

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. informal withdraw from or fail in something through lack of nerve the referee chickened out of giving a penalty