Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. An enclosed area, attached to a chicken coop, in which poultry are allowed to run around and peck.
WordNet
n. an enclosed yard for keeping poultry [syn: chicken yard, hen yard, fowl run]
Wikipedia
Chicken Run is a 2000 stop-motion comedy-drama film produced by the British studio Aardman Animations. As the studio's first feature-length film, it was directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park. It was co-financed by DreamWorks Pictures and Pathé, with the former distributing the film worldwide except for Europe, where it was handled by Pathé. The plot centres on a band of chickens who see a smooth-talking Rhode Island Red named Rocky as their only hope to escape from certain death when the owners of their farm decide to move from selling eggs to selling chicken pot pies. The film features the voices of Julia Sawalha, Mel Gibson, Timothy Spall, Phil Daniels, Tony Haygarth, and Miranda Richardson. Chicken Run received positive reviews from critics, and grossed over $224 million, becoming the highest-grossing stop motion animated film ever.
Chicken Run is a stealth-based 3D platform video game based on the movie Chicken Run. The game is a loose parody of the famous The Great Escape movie, which is based on World War II. The Game Boy Color version is a 2D isometric puzzle solving game. A Nintendo 64 version was planned, but later cancelled because of the introduction of the GameCube a year later.
Usage examples of "chicken run".
For days he had drooped about the empty chicken run, too dispirited to crow.
She was still in her old house in the East End, the house where my father grew up, the house in Oranges For Christmas, the house with a chicken run in the back garden and a stand-up piano in the living room.
Then there is the slanted door down to the cellar, and at the end of the yard, a small chicken run and the washhouse.
The nodes of our government and commercial computer systems are so poorly shielded that it's been a chicken run for the enemy, or their agents.