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chicken-liver

chicken-liver is the alternative form of chicken liver.

Meaning of chicken liver

Noun

chicken liver (countable and uncountable, plural chicken livers)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chicken, liver.
  2. (derogatory, mildly, slang) A coward.
    • This is Rob's home too, you chicken liver!2013, Andrea K. Vizenor, The Dragon Prince, →ISBN, page 48

Questions about chicken-liver

What is chicken-liver the alternative form of?
Chicken-liver is the alternative form of chicken liver.

Words near chicken-liver in the dictionary

  1. chicken-heartedness
  2. chicken-hearts
  3. chicken-house
  4. chicken-houses
  5. chicken-in-a-basket circuit
  6. chicken-liver
  7. chicken-livered
  8. chicken-neck
  9. chicken-necked
  10. chicken-necking
  11. chicken-necks

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