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chicken jockey

chicken jockey noun: a moment during a specific movie scene in which some viewers will go berserk or act haywire, due to memetic or unexpected nature of the movie, and may cause huge mess from thrown popcorn to straight-up vandalism.

Noun

chicken jockey (plural chicken jockeys)

  1. (Internet, movie theater slang) a moment during a specific movie scene in which some viewers will go berserk or act haywire, due to memetic or unexpected nature of the movie, and may cause huge mess from thrown popcorn to straight-up vandalism
    • I pray for movie theather employees that we dont have another Chicken Jockey incident.2026 March 26, @Munkieezy, X (post)
    • They just want people to act like adults and not have another CHICKEN JOCKEY situation where people got arrested for blowing off fireworks 😭2026 December 4, @Delsinishere, X (post)
    Synonyms:
    catharsis

Synonyms of chicken jockey

Forms of chicken jockey

pluralchicken jockeys

Origin of chicken jockey

Named after Minecraft's movie scene and its character of the same name.

Questions about chicken jockey

What does chicken jockey mean?
Chicken jockey means a moment during a specific movie scene in which some viewers will go berserk or act haywire, due to memetic or unexpected nature of the movie, and may cause huge mess from thrown popcorn to straight-up vandalism.
What part of speech is chicken jockey?
Chicken jockey is a noun.
What is the plural of chicken jockey?
The plural of chicken jockey is chicken jockeys.

Words near chicken jockey in the dictionary

  1. chicken guns
  2. chicken hawk
  3. chicken hawks
  4. chicken house
  5. chicken houses
  6. chicken jockey
  7. chicken jockeys
  8. chicken kiev
  9. chicken Kiev-style
  10. chicken kievs
  11. chicken kyiv

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