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chicken-feed

chicken-feed is the alternative spelling of chicken feed.

Meaning of chicken feed

Noun

chicken feed (countable and uncountable, plural chicken feeds)

  1. Food (usually grain) given to poultry.
  2. (idiomatic) A very small or insignificant quantity, especially of money.
    • Near-synonyms: pocket change, pocket money, chump change
  3. (Singlish) A trivial or easy task; a piece of cake.
    • BMT [Basic Military Training] was literally ‘chicken feet’ compared to Officer Cadet School (OCS) […]1994, C. S. Chong, NS: An Air-Level Story, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, →ISBN, page 16

Forms of chicken-feed

pluralchicken-feeds

Questions about chicken-feed

What is chicken-feed the alternative spelling of?
Chicken-feed is the alternative spelling of chicken feed.

Words near chicken-feed in the dictionary

  1. chicken-and-egg questions
  2. chicken-and-egg situation
  3. chicken-and-egg situations
  4. chicken-and-eggish
  5. chicken-breasted
  6. chicken-feed
  7. chicken-feeds
  8. chicken-fried
  9. chicken-fried steak
  10. chicken-fried steaks
  11. chicken-hazard

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