chicken wire
noun
: a light galvanized wire netting of hexagonal mesh
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The Graduate offers a rooftop lounge, White Limozeen, which features a 9-foot-tall bust of Dolly Parton made of chicken wire; and a cozy ground-floor karaoke bar called Crossed-Eyed Critters. 
Fox News, 31 Aug. 2022 To thwart them, make small cages around the bulbs from chicken wire, then bury the bulb inside them. Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 24 Aug. 2022 Also in the parade: an eight-foot-tall woolly mammoth, on wheels, made out of plywood, chicken wire, PVC pipes, burlap, coconut husks, white birch bark, nails, box springs, buttons, rusty iron tools, and deer bones. Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2022 The stand, built out of chicken wire and stucco in 1946 by architect Milton Black, originally sat on La Cienega Boulevard in the Beverly Grove neighborhood. Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022 Insert a piece of white chicken wire behind the hen's body, then adhere twigs with hot-glue to create legs and feet. Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 15 July 2022 By 1954 the backstop was held together with chicken wire, with the bleachers close behind. Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 30 June 2022 Graywolf Alto, who is Kumeyaay, contributed a diamondback rattlesnake out of chicken wire and papier-mâché to the exhibit. San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2022 My neighbor built a compost bin from old pallets and lined it with chicken wire to keep the scraps in and the vermin out. Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 14 June 2022 See More
Fox News, 31 Aug. 2022 To thwart them, make small cages around the bulbs from chicken wire, then bury the bulb inside them. Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 24 Aug. 2022 Also in the parade: an eight-foot-tall woolly mammoth, on wheels, made out of plywood, chicken wire, PVC pipes, burlap, coconut husks, white birch bark, nails, box springs, buttons, rusty iron tools, and deer bones. Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2022 The stand, built out of chicken wire and stucco in 1946 by architect Milton Black, originally sat on La Cienega Boulevard in the Beverly Grove neighborhood. Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022 Insert a piece of white chicken wire behind the hen's body, then adhere twigs with hot-glue to create legs and feet. Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 15 July 2022 By 1954 the backstop was held together with chicken wire, with the bleachers close behind. Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 30 June 2022 Graywolf Alto, who is Kumeyaay, contributed a diamondback rattlesnake out of chicken wire and papier-mâché to the exhibit. San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2022 My neighbor built a compost bin from old pallets and lined it with chicken wire to keep the scraps in and the vermin out. Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 14 June 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
from its use for making enclosures for chickens
First Known Use
1887, in the meaning defined above