chicken-shit
noun
- 1
Petty and contemptible thing(s).
“Don't waste your time on that chickenshit.”
- 2
A coward.
“I told him I wasn't having his insults, and he just backed right down. What a chickenshit.”
- 3
A low-ranking officer who lords over and needlessly makes life miserable for his underlings; a petty, abusive martinet.
adjective
- 1
Petty and contemptible; contemptibly unimportant. (Compare bullshit.)
- 2
Cowardly.
“How chickenshit of that girl to just stand there and do nothing.”
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