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chicken stakes

chicken stakes noun: small paltry stakes.

Noun

chicken stakes pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Small paltry stakes.
    • “We play for chicken stakes,” Bunny told him. “Pennies.”2010, Joan Smith, Dangerous Dalliance

Origin of chicken stakes

Hobson-Jobson suggests a connection with chickeen.

Questions about chicken stakes

What does chicken stakes mean?
Chicken stakes means small paltry stakes.
What part of speech is chicken stakes?
Chicken stakes is a noun.

Words near chicken stakes in the dictionary

  1. chicken snake
  2. chicken snakes
  3. chicken soup
  4. chicken soups
  5. chicken spike
  6. chicken stakes
  7. chicken strips
  8. chicken switch
  9. chicken switches
  10. chicken tender
  11. chicken tenders

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