To have shown fear in checked pants

Usage examples of chickened.

Jamieson had chickened out and left the party early, to hide out in her room.

He might have devised the whole scheme, but he must have chickened out at the last moment.

She had a fierce temper and an ugly mouth on her that day we waited for the Bullet and then I chickened out wasn’t the only time she ever yelled at me and then swatted me but I loved her in spite of it.

Glummy boy was shocked by some of the forfeits and caved in - correction, avoiding forfeit: chickened in - not that, either.

Wrong number, heavy breather who chickened out, spurious signal from New York's overloaded phone system?

But you pestered her all day, pestered pestered pestered, and here's the joke of it, man-when you finally got to the head of the line, you chickened.

But you pestered her all day, pestered pestered pestered, and here’s the joke of it, man when you finally got to the head of the line, you chickened.

Paul, a town of about 150 near Huntsville, I was shaking hands with all the marchers in the Pioneer Day parade, but I chickened out when I saw a man walking right toward me with his pet on a leash.