{
    "term": "chicken",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "image": "data/images/bi/birds_poultry.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a large bird that is often kept for its eggs or meat",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They keep chickens in the back yard."
                },
                {
                    "text": "free-range chickens"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Chickens were pecking at the ground."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the sound of chickens clucking"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A few chickens were scratching around the yard."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Are we just going to sit here like trussed up chickens?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Battery chickens have miserable lives."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Free-range chickens have happy lives."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a crate of live chickens"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Birds"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["battery", "broiler", "corn-fed"],
                "verb + chicken": ["keep", "raise", "kill"],
                "chicken + verb": ["peck", "scratch", "cluck"],
                "chicken + noun": ["farmer", "coop", "run"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "meat from a chicken",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**fried chicken**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "roast/grilled chicken"
                },
                {
                    "text": "succulent pieces of chicken"
                },
                {
                    "text": "chicken and chips"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**chicken breasts/wings**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "chicken livers/thighs"
                },
                {
                    "text": "chicken nuggets"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a chicken sandwich"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**chicken soup**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "chicken stock"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Food"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["fresh", "frozen", "organic"],
                "… of chicken": ["piece", "strip"],
                "verb + chicken": ["eat", "have", "cook"],
                "chicken + noun": ["breast", "drumsticks", "giblets"],
                "phrases": ["(a) breast of chicken", "(a) leg of chicken"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a person who is not brave or is afraid to do something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He called me a chicken because I wouldn't swim in the river."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a situation in which it is difficult to tell which one of two things was the cause of the other",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say that if somebody says or does something bad or wrong, it will affect them badly in the future",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "you should not be too confident that something will be successful, because something may still go wrong",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Success"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to play a game in which people do something dangerous for as long as they can to show how brave they are. The person who stops first has lost the game.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The children had been playing chicken by running across the railway line."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Games and toys"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be very busy and active trying to do something, but not very organized, with the result that you do not succeed",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Difficulty and failure"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈtʃɪkɪn/",
                "audio": "ch/chicken/chicken__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈtʃɪkɪn/",
                "audio": "ch/chicken/chicken__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English cīcen, cȳcen, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kieken and German Küchlein, and probably also to cock."
}