Noun

(en noun)

A room or area for preparing food.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […]  A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}

An admixture of languages spoken to convey meaning between non-native speakers.

* 1885 , , (w, King Solomon's Mines) ,

Sir Henry and Umbopo sat conversing in a mixture of broken English and kitchen Zulu, in low voices, but earnestly enough.

(African American Vernacular English) The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look.

Cuisine.

(music) The percussion section of an orchestra.

* 1981 , Norman Del Mar, Anatomy of the Orchestra ,

For obvious reasons the percussion is normally arranged along the back of the platform, whether centrally or to one side, and sometimes also in two tiers, the heavy, noisier instruments behind, and the pitched, agile instruments such as vibraphone, marimba, etc. in front. An outstanding exception, however, exists in Roberto Gerhard's Epithalamion where the composer expressly desired that the all-important kitchen department be spread out in front of the strings and hence nearest the audience.

(dated) A utensil for roasting meat.

a tin kitchen

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.