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Collocations for chicken - noun

1. bird

ADJECTIVE

battery (BrE), broiler, corn-fed, free-range
Free-range chickens have happy lives.
live
a crate of live chickens

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VERB + chicken

keep, raise
kill
pluck

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chicken + VERB

peck
scratch
A few chickens were scratching around the yard.
cluck
wander

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chicken + NOUN

farmer
coop, run
wire (= wire made into sheets for fences)

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2. meat

ADJECTIVE

fresh, frozen
organic
juicy, succulent, tender
cooked, raw
cold

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… OF CHICKEN

piece, strip
succulent pieces of chicken

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VERB + chicken

eat, have
cook
barbecue, fry, grill, roast, etc.
stuff

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chicken + NOUN

breast, drumsticks, giblets, leg, liver, nuggets, piece, thigh, wing
broth, casserole, curry, salad, sandwich, soup, stock

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PHRASES

(a) breast of chicken, (a) leg of chicken

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