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Definition of chicken hawk in English: chicken hawknoun US 1A hawk of a type that is reputed to prey on domestic fowl. Example sentencesExamples - A solitary chicken hawk circled so slowly on a high updraft of air that he looked to be hanging motionless, a small brown kite.
- Red-tailed hawks are returning. They are also called chicken hawks although they normally eat more rodents, woodchucks, and rabbits than chickens.
- A chicken-hawk flew down onto one of the burnt tree stumps.
- There was no one to overhear them save a speckled chicken hawk circling lazily on the updraft from the mountain.
- Overhead, a tiny but persistent washi bird attacked a much bigger chicken hawk on the wing to try and get feathers for its nest.
- 1.1informal An older man who seeks younger men or boys as sexual partners.
2informal A person who speaks out in support of war yet has avoided active military service. Example sentencesExamples - In other words, it appears that he was something of a rightwinger, but hypocritical about his own status with the draft - a prototype of what we would now call a chickenhawk.
- What amazes me is how the current chicken hawks have conned America about how patriotic they are.
- In a whole series of pieces, Newfield went after what he crudely called the chicken hawks, the right-wing drum-bangers who had either dodged the war or invented a record in it.
- Like every other member of the group, we evaded the war in Vietnam. Some people see an ethical problem in this; they refer to us as chicken hawks.
- But having to go to the UN at all was a defeat for the largely civilian 'chicken hawks' who make up the war party in Washington.
- Voter chose the chickenhawk over the war hero.
- The chickenhawks, the cabal of right-wingers who never saw the far side of a military training ground, are the men now banging the drums for war in the White House.
- Lately, the chicken hawks have been dissing the generals as sissies.
- Every so often, anyone who supported the war has to contend with the cries of "Chickenhawk!"
- I really enjoy listening to these chickenhawks bloviating about the anti-war movement.
Definition of chicken hawk in US English: chicken hawk(also chickenhawk) noun US 1A hawk of a type that is reputed to prey on domestic fowl. Example sentencesExamples - Red-tailed hawks are returning. They are also called chicken hawks although they normally eat more rodents, woodchucks, and rabbits than chickens.
- There was no one to overhear them save a speckled chicken hawk circling lazily on the updraft from the mountain.
- A chicken-hawk flew down onto one of the burnt tree stumps.
- A solitary chicken hawk circled so slowly on a high updraft of air that he looked to be hanging motionless, a small brown kite.
- Overhead, a tiny but persistent washi bird attacked a much bigger chicken hawk on the wing to try and get feathers for its nest.
- 1.1informal An older man who seeks younger men or boys as sexual partners.
2informal A person who speaks out in support of war yet has avoided active military service. Example sentencesExamples - What amazes me is how the current chicken hawks have conned America about how patriotic they are.
- In other words, it appears that he was something of a rightwinger, but hypocritical about his own status with the draft - a prototype of what we would now call a chickenhawk.
- In a whole series of pieces, Newfield went after what he crudely called the chicken hawks, the right-wing drum-bangers who had either dodged the war or invented a record in it.
- Lately, the chicken hawks have been dissing the generals as sissies.
- But having to go to the UN at all was a defeat for the largely civilian 'chicken hawks' who make up the war party in Washington.
- I really enjoy listening to these chickenhawks bloviating about the anti-war movement.
- Voter chose the chickenhawk over the war hero.
- The chickenhawks, the cabal of right-wingers who never saw the far side of a military training ground, are the men now banging the drums for war in the White House.
- Like every other member of the group, we evaded the war in Vietnam. Some people see an ethical problem in this; they refer to us as chicken hawks.
- Every so often, anyone who supported the war has to contend with the cries of "Chickenhawk!"
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