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rubber chickens

rubber chickens is the plural of rubber chicken.

Meaning of rubber chicken

Noun

rubber chicken (countable and uncountable, plural rubber chickens)

  1. (literal) A hollow, bright yellow toy or prop depicting a plucked chicken that emits a squeak when squeezed.
    • The hack comic produced a rubber chicken, to the groans and boos of the audience.
  2. (attributive, colloquial, uncountable, usually) The mediocre food served at social events, especially political fundraisers.
    • The bill of fare consisted of an india-rubber chicken and boiled eggs.1883 November 9, “Odds and Ends”, in Gloucester Citizen, page 4
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rubber, chicken.

Questions about rubber chickens

What is rubber chickens the plural of?
Rubber chickens is the plural of rubber chicken.

Words near rubber chickens in the dictionary

  1. rubber check
  2. rubber checks
  3. rubber cheque
  4. rubber cheques
  5. rubber chicken
  6. rubber chickens
  7. rubber diaper
  8. rubber diapers
  9. rubber duck
  10. rubber duck debugging
  11. rubber ducked

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