📚 Chicken, verb. 🔉 /ˈtʃɪkɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (chicken out • informal • no object): Withdraw from or fail in something through lack of nerve. ❗️ Examples: 1. The referee chickened out of giving a penalty. 2. But every time I almost get up the nerve to go and speak to her, I chicken out. 3. Maybe you'll intend to come clean but chicken out. 4. She said, ‘We need to raise a better generation that won't chicken out.’ 5. If the corporate talking heads don't chicken out, this could be fun. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic