CHICKEN

Chicken

The chicken is a domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the Red Junglefowl. As one of the most common and widespread domestic animals with a population of more than 24 billion in 2003, there are more chickens in the world than any other species of bird. Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food, consuming both their meat and their eggs.

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CHICKEN

CHICKEN is a compiler and interpreter for the Scheme programming language that compiles Scheme code to standard C. It is mostly R5RS compliant and offers many extensions to the standard. CHICKEN is free software available under the BSD license. It is implemented mostly in Scheme, with some parts in C for performance or to make embedding into C programs easier.

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chicken

Noun

  1. A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young
  2. The meat from this bird eaten as food.
  3. A coward.
  4. A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair. Cf. chickenhawk
  5. A young or inexperienced person.
  6. 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 loser.
    Don't play chicken with a freight train; you're guaranteed to lose.
  7. The game of dare.

Verb

  1. To avoid as a result of fear.
  2. To develop physical or other characteristics resembling a chicken's, for example, bumps on the skin.

Adjective

  1. cowardly


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