Noun

(countable) A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus , especially when young

(uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.

(countable, slang) A coward.

(countable, gay slang) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair. Compare chickenhawk

(countable, slang) A young or inexperienced person.

* 1887 , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet , III:

"This case will make a stir, sir," he remarked. "It beats anything I have seen, and I am no chicken ."

* Jonathan Swift

Stella is no chicken .

A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the chicken (, the loser.)

Don't play chicken with a freight train; you're guaranteed to lose.

The game of dare.

Noun

(en noun)

A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.

A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.

In an online shop, a notional place to store items before ordering them.

(basketball) A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.

(basketball) The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.

The game of basketball.

A dance movement in some line dances, where men put their arms round the women's lower backs, and the women put their arms over the mens' shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.

(UK, slang) Genitals.

(obsolete) In a stage-coach, two outside seats facing each other.

* 1773 ,

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage-coach. Its fopperies come down not only as inside passengers, but in the very basket .

(archaic) A protection for the hand on a sword or a singlestick; a guard of a bladed weapon.

# A singlestick with a basket hilt.

#* 1773 ,

Baw! damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other——with baskets .

(ballooning) Where the pilot and passengers are.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson

, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}

(architecture) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.

(Gwilt)