chicken strips

Noun

chicken strips pl (plural only)

1. (plural, plural-only) Chicken fingers, or chicken tenders; a style of batter-fried chicken without skin or bones.
2. (humorous, plural, plural-only, slang) The band of unscuffed tire surface at the outer edges of the contact surface.
   • "The harder you lean into corners, the more of the tyre you use. This means that a biker who rides hard will have an evenly-worn tyre. A biker who rides gently will not use the outer edges of the rubber resulting in a phenomenon known as 'chicken strips'. These are very uncool and a beacon to those...
   • "At our first gas stop, I was thrilled to note that the "chicken strips," those bands of virgin rubber found on the edges of most Midwestern riders' rear tires, had been burned off the Yamaha's 17-inch Bridgestone Battalax BT-20s. In other words, I was hitting some serious (for me) lean angles."²