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chicken salt

chicken salt noun: a seasoning comprising table salt blended with herbs, spices, flavourings, and sometimes monosodium glutamate, often containing chicken extracts.

Noun

chicken salt (uncountable)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A seasoning comprising table salt blended with herbs, spices, flavourings, and sometimes monosodium glutamate, often containing chicken extracts.
    • Look at that man, eating No Name chicken salt from a noodles packet; not bothering to chase after the packet being blown by the wind towards the forest.1999, Peter Craven, editor, Best Australian essays
    • ‘Chicken salt. That′s all it was. He wanted chicken salt and he got ordinary salt and so he whinged at me.’2005, Bill Condon, chapter IC, in No Worries, page 62

Questions about chicken salt

What does chicken salt mean?
Chicken salt means a seasoning comprising table salt blended with herbs, spices, flavourings, and sometimes monosodium glutamate, often containing chicken extracts.
What part of speech is chicken salt?
Chicken salt is a noun.

Words near chicken salt in the dictionary

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  3. chicken salad
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  5. chicken salads
  6. chicken salt
  7. chicken scratch
  8. chicken scratches
  9. chicken shell
  10. chicken shells
  11. chicken shop

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