Crossword clues for chickenshit
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
chickenshit \chickenshit\ n. a false statement that is considered to indicate timidity or fear. [slang]
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context slang vulgar English) petty and contemptible; contemptibly unimportant. (qualifier: Compare bullshit.) 2 (context vulgar slang English) cowardly. alt. 1 (context slang vulgar English) petty and contemptible; contemptibly unimportant. (qualifier: Compare bullshit.) 2 (context vulgar slang English) cowardly. n. 1 (context slang vulgar English) Petty and contemptible thing(s). 2 (context slang vulgar English) A coward. 3 (context vulgar military slang English) A low-ranking officer who lords over and needlessly makes life miserable for his underlings; a petty, abusive martinet.
WordNet
n. a false statement that is considered to indicate timidity or fear
Usage examples of "chickenshit".
As he watched a Diego DI jab his elbow in the gut of some kid who wasn't standing tall enough, or who had dared to look directly at the DI, or some other chickenshit offense, McCoy remembered his own Parris Island DI.
Otherwise he was going to belt some chickenshit sonofabitch like this before his discharge came and get dragged to Portsmouth with a trench gun pointed at his back.
He knew goddamned well it was a violation of Rocks and Shoals (The Disciplinary Code for the Governance of the Naval Services) to hit somebody with a billy club like that, but the chickenshit sonofabitch didn't do a thing about it.
You just might run into some chickenshit sonofabitch with bars on his collar who will take offense.
A little chickenshit was to be expected, and was probably even a good thing: Pleasant had to make it absolutely clear to these college boys that they were under his absolute control.
He was just being a prick, and McCoy decided there was a limit to the chickenshit he would take.
There was supposed to be very little chickenshit among the Green Berets, mainly because most of the enlisted men were sergeants, and because of their colonel, an Irishman named Hanrahan.
The brainwashing, the chickenshit, Karl-Heinz Wagner had told him with professional assurance, had a valid purpose.
According to Karl-Heinz Wagner, the chickenshit, the "Give me fifty" (push-ups) for the slightest violation of petty rules and regulations was designed so that the trainees would instantly and without question obey any order they were given.
Talbott told him he didn't know about the telephone patch and that Saigon was chickenshit, but he would find out.
And because Joe was stupid and arrogant he was no doubt also going to make a lot of stupid -and useless trouble for Bloom, which the lawyer was going to let him do because he felt guilty, or noble, or was just too chickenshit to refuse a case that was doomed from the start.
He knew they were weary and frightened, too, but on no one face did this seem evident, and he was afraid that he broadcast it from his body as if someone had painted him a Day-Glo chickenshit yellow that shone in the dark.
Shorty retired the side, though not before he had clobbered Joe Mondragon between the shoulder blades with a throw (off Joe's bunt) that Shorty at least pretended he'd meant for the Angel first base-men, Joe's chickenshit cousin, Floyd Mondragon.
And so they all go around saying, Sally's chickenshit, Sally's a girl, Sally wants his mama to walk him past Mr.
Pippi De Lena has a heart, Cross has a chickenshit heart, my mother has a broken heart.