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chicken
The chicken (''Gallus gallus domesticus'') is a domesticated subspecies of the red junglefowl (''Gallus gallus''), originally native to Southeast Asia. It was first domesticated around 8,000 years ago and is now one of the most common and w ...
(''Gallus domesticus'') is a type of domesticated bird.
Chicken, chickens, or the chicken may also refer to:
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Chicken (food)
Chicken is the most common type of poultry in the world. Owing to the relative ease and low cost of raising chickens—in comparison to mammals such as cattle or hogs—chicken meat (commonly called just "chicken") and chicken eggs have beco ...
Film and television
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''Chicken'' (2001 film), a 2001 Irish short film
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''Chicken'' (2015 film), a British drama film directed by Joe Stephenson
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''Chickens'' (1916 film), a film starring Oliver Hardy
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''Chickens'' (1921 film), an American silent comedy drama film
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''The Chicken'' (film), a 1965 short comedy film directed by Claude Berri
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''Chickens'' (TV series), a UK TV series starring Simon Bird and Joe Thomas
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Chicken (''Family Guy''), a recurring character in the American TV series ''Family Guy''
* One of the titular characters in the TV series ''
Cow and Chicken
''Cow and Chicken'' is an American animated comedy television series created by David Feiss for Cartoon Network. It is the third of the network's Cartoon Cartoons. It follows the surreal adventures of two talking animal siblings, Cow and Chic ...
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"Chickens" (''BoJack Horseman''), a 2015 episode
Music
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''Chicken'' (EP), Los Angeles rock band Ednaswap's only EP
Songs
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"Chicken" (The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster song), 2003
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"The Chicken" (music), a jazz tune composed by Pee Wee Ellis and made famous by Jaco Pastorius
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The Chicken Song
"The Chicken Song" is a novelty song by the British satirical comedy television programme ''Spitting Image'' (series 3, episode 6). The nonsensical lyrics were written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor; the music was written by Philip Pope, who also ...
", a parody song from Spitting Image, 1986
* "Chicken", by Sly and the Family Stone from ''
Life
Life, also known as biota, refers to matter that has biological processes, such as Cell signaling, signaling and self-sustaining processes. It is defined descriptively by the capacity for homeostasis, Structure#Biological, organisation, met ...
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The Cheers
The Cheers were an American vocal group, that had a string of novelty hits for Capitol Records in the mid-1950s starting with "(Bazoom) I Need Your Lovin'" which hit number fifteen on the U.S. chart in 1954. This was the first hit written by Je ...
, written by Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, and Jack Rollins, 1955
* "Chicken", by
Kero Kero Bonito
Kero Kero Bonito (KKB) are a British indie pop band formed in London in 2013. The band consists of vocalist Sarah Midori Perry and producers and multi-instrumentalists Gus Lobban and Jamie Bulled.
Their musical style consists of indie pop, ele ...
, 2015
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Semler Semler is an occupational surname derived from the occupation of baker who bakes '':de:Brötchen, semmels'', i.e., white bread rolls.
Notable people with the surname include:
*Andrée Sfeir-Semler (born 1953), art historian and gallery owner
*Augu ...
, 2021
* "The Chicken", a song by Bo Burnham from ''
The Inside Outtakes'', 2022
* "Chickens", by Future and EST Gee from ''
I Never Liked You '', 2022
* "Chicken Song", from the 2014 film ''
Bajrangi Bhaijaan
''Bajrangi Bhaijaan'' () is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Kabir Khan, based on an original story by screenwriter V. Vijayendra Prasad, and produced by Salman Khan, Rockline Venkatesh and Kabir Kh ...
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People
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coward
Cowardice is a characteristic wherein excessive fear prevents an individual from taking a risk or facing danger. It is the opposite of courage. As a label, "cowardice" indicates a failure of character in the face of a challenge. One who succumb ...
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Chicken (gay slang)
Chicken can be used, usually by gay men referring to other gay men, to mean a young gay man or young-appearing gay man.
Author Bruce Rodgers defines the term as "1. any boy under the age of consent, heterosexual, fair of face, and unfamiliar ...
, a young or young appearing gay male
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Gary "Chicken" Hirsh (1940–2021), drummer for the rock group Country Joe and the Fish
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Wilfred "Chicken" Smallhorn (1911–1988), Australian rules footballer
Other uses
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Alfred Chicken, a platform video game
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Chicken (game)
The game of chicken, also known as the hawk-dove game or snowdrift game, is a model of conflict for two players in game theory. The principle of the game is that while the ideal outcome is for one player to yield (to avoid the worst outcome if n ...
, a typical game studied in game theory
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Chicken, Alaska, a city in the United States
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Chicken Creek (disambiguation), multiple watercourses
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Chicken Rock, an island administered by the Isle of Man
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Dixie Chicken (bar), a popular bar in College Station, Texas, also called ''The Chicken''
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Chicken (Scheme implementation)
Chicken (stylized as CHICKEN) is a programming language, specifically a compiler and interpreter which implement a dialect of the programming language Scheme, and which compiles Scheme source code to standard C. It is mostly R5RS compliant an ...
, a compiler and interpreter for the programming language Scheme
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''Chicken'' (video game), a 1982 video game for Atari 8-bit computers
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Grouse
Grouse are a group of birds from the order (biology), order Galliformes, in the family (biology), family Phasianidae. Grouse are presently assigned to the Tribe (biology), tribe Tetraonini (formerly the subfamily Tetraoninae and the family Tetr ...
, a group of game birds popularly called ''chicken'' in some areas
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Robot Chicken
''Robot Chicken'' is an American adult animation, adult stop motion, stop-motion animated sketch comedy television series created by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich for Cartoon Network's nighttime programming block Adult Swim. The twelve-minute ...
'', American adult stop motion-animated sketch comedy television series
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The Chicken (dance), a popular American rhythm and blues dance
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The San Diego Chicken, a San Diego–based sports mascot, also called ''The Chicken''
See also
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