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chicken-wings

chicken-wings is the plural of chicken-wing.

chicken-wings is the third-person singular simple present indicative of chicken-wing.

Meaning of chicken-wing

Verb

chicken-wing (third-person singular simple present chicken-wings, present participle chicken-winging, simple past and past participle chicken-winged)

  1. (humorous) To pass a hard-hit ball with the upper arm extended out from the body. The player usually has the lower arm pulled in toward the body, reminiscent of a chicken's wings when trussed.
    • Don't chicken-wing it!
  2. To shoot in a chicken wing stance, i.e. with both elbows positioned inline with the neck.

Questions about chicken-wings

What is chicken-wings the plural of?
Chicken-wings is the plural of chicken-wing.

Words near chicken-wings in the dictionary

  1. chicken-turtle
  2. chicken-turtles
  3. chicken-wing
  4. chicken-winged
  5. chicken-winging
  6. chicken-wings
  7. chickenability
  8. chickenarian
  9. chickenarians
  10. chickenball
  11. chickenberry

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chicken-wings (page history and authors); chicken-wing (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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