Collocations for "chicken"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "chicken" in context.
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chicken
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [fried, roasted, grilled, raw, cooked] chicken
- [tandoori, sweet and sour, coronation] chicken
- chicken and [rice, vegetables]
- chicken with [rice]
- [cook, grill, pan-fry] the chicken
- wash your hands after [touching, handling] chicken
- are having chicken for [dinner, lunch]
- I'm no spring chicken (anymore)!
- is raising chickens
- the chickens are [raised, slaughtered]
- a rubber chicken
- don't be such a chicken!
- slang: (come back,) you chicken!
- UK: what's [up, wrong, the matter], chicken?
- the [kids, children, friends] were playing chicken
- playing chicken in the [street, road]
- chicken's eggs
- chicken [soup, salad, drumsticks, nuggets, breast, wings]
- Chicken [Caesar salad, Supreme, Cacciatore, Chasseur]
- a chicken [farm, coop]
- a fence made of chicken wire
- won't [do it, fight] - he's chicken
- is too chicken to (do it)
'chicken' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
baked
- barbecue
- batter
- beef
- biscuit
- bone
- bread
- breast
- broth
- butterfly
- case
- cook
- counterpart
- cream
- curry
- devil
- dinner
- done
- egg
- farm
- feed
- fillet
- filling
- finger
- flour
- freezer
- fried
- ginger
- glaze
- grill
- grilled
- honey
- jerk
- joint
- lay
- lemon
- like
- liver
- lunch
- neck
- oven
- pasta
- poach
- pork
- pot
- rice
- roast
- run
- sage
- salad