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)

The lower limb of a human being or animal that extends from the groin to the ankle.

Dan won't be able to come to the party, since he broke his leg last week and is now on crutches.

(anatomy) The portion of the lower appendage of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.

A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.

The left leg of these jeans has a tear.

A stage of a journey, race etc.

After six days, we're finally in the last leg of our cross-country trip.

(nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.

(nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.

(sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.

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One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.

(geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.

A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, supporting it from underneath.

the legs of a chair or table

(usually used in plural) evidence, the ability of a thing or idea to stick around or persist

(UK, slang, archaic) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.

An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg.

In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.

(cricket) A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.