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Examples
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But the chicken-man ploy seemed to be intended for me; the BK chicken-man wanted ME to eat their BK chicken.
Wet cement, outside, it’s drying, fast, come on! This is a life long dream. What do I write? 2008
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Instead of my desired intention, to refer to the rooster as a "male chicken," I had literally called it "chicken-man"!
Archive 2007-08-01 Eric 2007
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Instead of my desired intention, to refer to the rooster as a "male chicken," I had literally called it "chicken-man"!
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‘Oh, chicken-man!’ said Kim, and even the abashed Jat laughed.
Kim 2003
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The police were at that time hunting a man who was known in the quarter as "chicken-man," because he would always bring with him two fowls which he would choke during the orgasm.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
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'Oh, chicken-man!' said Kim, and even the abashed Jat laughed.
Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900
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We hadn't more than got out of hearing of Sol's cachinatory explosions, before we met one of his neighbours, who gave us to understand that the ducking we had just received, was but the fulfilment of a threat of Sol's, to make the "chicken-man" take a swim in the "Buck Hole."
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"In" is a very important word, and oboma does not live it ... as he is not in Iraq with a gun, but running around like a chicken-man!
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The girls haven’t been much in attendance through my “bearded chicken-man” period, but now that I have a guitar in my hands, they are back.
Late, Late at Night Rick Springfield 2010
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The girls haven’t been much in attendance through my “bearded chicken-man” period, but now that I have a guitar in my hands, they are back.
Late, Late at Night Rick Springfield 2010
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(noun) - A census-taker; humorous. --William Craigie's Dictionary of American English, 1940
April 22, 2018