chicken out

Speech parts

1. chicken out - Verb

2. chicken out - Phrase

Meaning

remove oneself from an obligation

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

back down pull out back off bow out wimp out duck chicken break fail surrender withdraw resign funk abandon renege
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Antonyms

bear resist oppose withstand brave defy
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Hypernyms

withdraw retire

Hyponyms

resile

Examples

Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help. Scott Westerfeld

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight. Star Jones

When I arrived at Campbell on January 8, 2001, the company had lost half its market value in the prior year. They had to cut costs to the point where they were literally taking the chicken out of chicken noodle soup and the product was no longer competitive. Douglas Conant

When in doubt chicken out. Robin Jones Gunn

Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing real men do that doesn't seem to threaten their masculinity. To women, it's on the same domestic entry level as putting the spring back into the toilet-tissue holder or taking a chicken out of the freezer to thaw. Erma Bombeck

He bowed out when he heard how much work was involved Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

chicken out

Close letter words and terms

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