chicken run

English

chicken run (plural chicken runs)

An enclosed area, attached to a chicken coop, in which poultry are allowed to run around and peck.
Synonyms: chicken pen, chickenyard, chookyard
(slang, historical) The act of "gapping it", i.e. emigrating from Rhodesia as a white inhabitant during the country's transition to independence.
- 2019, David Kenrick, Decolonisation, Identity and Nation in Rhodesia, 1964-1979, page 2:
  By 1979, thousands had 'gapped it', or taken the 'chicken run', as emigration was derisively known […]

enclosed area for poultry

Dutch: kippenren (nl) f
Finnish: kanatarha
German: Hühnerhof m, Auslauf für Hühner m, Hühnerauslauf m, Hühnergehege n, Hühnerpferch m
Swedish: hönsgård (sv) c
Volapük: gokayad

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