also: チッキン
Refers to chicken as food, not the live animal. Common in cooking contexts.
Let's make chicken curry tonight.
This chicken is very tender.
coward; scaredy-cat; wuss
Slang term for a cowardly person, derived from English 'chicken'. Often used teasingly.
He's a chicken, so he can't go into the haunted house.
Being scared of something like that—you're such a wuss.
Let's grill some chicken and eat it tonight.
He can't even go to the haunted house test—what a chicken.
My mother fried some chicken for me.
I chickened out at the last moment and quit.
chicken katsu; chicken cutlet