chicken or egg question

A form of chicken-or-egg question — A supposed paradox concerning whether chickens or chicken eggs existed first.

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nounchicken or egg question (plural chicken or egg questions)

plural chicken or egg questions

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of chicken-or-egg question.

    The apparent one-to-one correspondence between comets and meteor showers raised a chicken or egg question which was not fully resolved until the middle of the twentieth century.

    2008 March, Steve Batterson, “The Father of the Father of American Mathematics”, in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, volume 55, number 3, page 359
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