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chicken-and-egg problem

chicken-and-egg problem is the alternative form of chicken-or-egg question.

Meaning of chicken-or-egg question

Noun

chicken-or-egg question (plural chicken-or-egg questions)

  1. A supposed paradox concerning whether chickens or chicken eggs existed first.
  2. (broadly) A question to decide which of two interdependent things happened first.

Forms of chicken-and-egg problem

pluralchicken-and-egg problems

Questions about chicken-and-egg problem

What is chicken-and-egg problem the alternative form of?
Chicken-and-egg problem is the alternative form of chicken-or-egg question.

Words near chicken-and-egg problem in the dictionary

  1. chicken wires
  2. chicken à la king
  3. chicken's-meat
  4. chicken-65
  5. chicken-and-egg
  6. chicken-and-egg problem
  7. chicken-and-egg problems
  8. chicken-and-egg question
  9. chicken-and-egg questions
  10. chicken-and-egg situation
  11. chicken-and-egg situations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chicken-and-egg problem (page history and authors); chicken-or-egg question (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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