chicken dance

noun

A simple modern dance, performed to a version of Werner Thomas's Bird Song or Birdie Song, in which certain moves mimic the movements of a chicken.

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Meanings

nounchicken dance (plural chicken dances)

plural chicken dances

  1. preceded by definite articleA simple modern dance, performed to a version of Werner Thomas's Bird Song or Birdie Song, in which certain moves mimic the movements of a chicken.
  2. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of prairie chicken dance (“traditional Native American dance”).

    There is a laughable account of one of these "chicken-dances," as the Americans call them, in the first volume of the late Mr. T. Keast Lord's 'The Naturalist in British Columbia.'

    1876, Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History, page 5072

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
prairie chicken dance

Translations

Finnish tiputanssi
  • tiputanssisimple modern dance
French danse des canards
  • danse des canardssimple modern dance
German Ententanz
  • Ententanzsimple modern dance
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APA

chicken dance. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chicken%20dance

MLA

“chicken dance.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chicken%20dance. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chicken dance,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chicken%20dance.

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