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chicken feed

chicken feed noun: food (usually grain) given to poultry.

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
    • "Some of them old skinflints has no heart Al but why should I fight with a old man over chicken feed like $10?"1916, Ring Lardner Sr., chapter 3, in You Know Me Al
  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

chicken feed meaning in Tamil and Bengali

chicken feed in Tamil

கோழித் தீவனம்

chicken feed in Bengali

অত্যন্ত সামান্য, অকিঞ্চিৎকর পরিমাণ, একটি সামান্য, সহজ কাজ, অত্যন্ত সহজ

Synonyms of chicken feed

All synonyms of chicken feed

Forms of chicken feed

pluralchicken feeds
alternative formchickenfeed
alternative formchicken-feed
alternative formchicken feet

Questions about chicken feed

What does chicken feed mean?
Chicken feed means food (usually grain) given to poultry.
What is chicken feed in Tamil?
Chicken feed in Tamil is கோழித் தீவனம். See Chicken feed meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is chicken feed?
Chicken feed is a noun.
What is the plural of chicken feed?
The plural of chicken feed is chicken feeds.

Words near chicken feed in the dictionary

  1. chicken cutlets
  2. chicken dance
  3. chicken dances
  4. chicken farmer
  5. chicken farmers
  6. chicken feed
  7. chicken feeds
  8. chicken feet
  9. chicken fight
  10. chicken fights
  11. chicken filet

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