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chickened out

chickened out is the simple past and past participle of chicken out.

Meaning of chicken out

Verb

chicken out (third-person singular simple present chickens out, present participle chickening out, simple past and past participle chickened out)

  1. (idiomatic) To shy away from a daring task; to decline, refuse, or avoid something due to fear or uncertainty.
    • We almost convinced his dad to ride the roller coaster, but he chickened out when he saw how high it went.

Questions about chickened out

What is chickened out the simple past and past participle of?
Chickened out is the simple past and past participle of chicken out.

Words near chickened out in the dictionary

  1. chickencoop
  2. chickencoops
  3. chickeneater
  4. chickeneaters
  5. chickened
  6. chickened out
  7. chickenelly
  8. chickenfeed
  9. chickenfeeds
  10. chickenfucker
  11. chickenfuckers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chickened out (page history and authors); chicken out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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