chicken

1. n.
   
   Any boy under the age of consent.
2. adj.
   
   Cowardly.
3. n.
   
   A very young person who cruises older people, usually a gay male under the age of 21.
4. Teenager, boyish, adolescent juvenile, young-looking, youthful.
5. Young gays & lesbians.
6. An adolescent boy regarded as a sexual object for an adult homosexual.
   See also: ▶benny
7. 19th century sailor term for a boy or young man, that is a sexually desirable person. or his lover, and whom he calls his chicken.
   See also: faunet, faunlet
8. Eighteen to twenty-four, A young person, an attractive young male. [I was still chicken in High School when I went to live with Ray].
   See also: legal chicken
   Source: [late 1990's]
9. An adolescence game of courage in which competitors dare one another to complete a given task.
10. One who is a coward, showing fear in the face of danger or pain.
11. A gay teenager.
12. In Chinese culture, a female prostitute.