chicken dance

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chicken dance (plural chicken dances)

  1. (preceded by definite article) A simple modern dance, performed to a version of Werner Thomas's Bird Song or Birdie Song, in which certain moves mimic the movements of a chicken.
  2. Ellipsis of prairie chicken dance (“traditional Native American dance”).
    • 1876, Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History, page 5072:
      There is a laughable account of one of these "chicken-dances," as the Americans call them, in the first volume of the late Mr. T. Keast Lord's 'The Naturalist in British Columbia.'

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