Usually means: Withdraw due to fear, cowardice.
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  1. chicken out: Merriam-Webster
  2. chicken out: Collins English Dictionary
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  4. chicken out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. chicken out: Wiktionary
  6. chicken out: Dictionary.com
  7. chicken out: Rhymezone
  8. chicken out: Phrasal Verb Page
  9. chicken out: FreeDictionary.org
  10. chicken out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. chicken out: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. chicken out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (chicken out)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To shy away from a daring task; to decline, refuse, or avoid something due to fear or uncertainty.

Similar:
bow out, pull out, back down, back off, chicken, shy away from, wimp out, funk out, cop out, fight shy of, more...

Opposite:
mup, grow pair, suck it up

Types:
wimp out, chickened out, pussy out, bail out, cop out, more...

Phrases:
ones likely to chicken out, to chicken out, more...

Adjectives:
badass, expletive, rubber, kepo, bitchy, lame, damn, gullible, credulous, exploitable, hinky

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Similar:
bow out, pull out, back down, back off, chicken, shy away from, wimp out, funk out, cop out, fight shy of, more...

Opposite:
mup, grow pair, suck it up

Types:
wimp out, chickened out, pussy out, bail out, cop out, more...

Phrases:
ones likely to chicken out, to chicken out, more...

Adjectives:
badass, expletive, rubber, kepo, bitchy, lame, damn, gullible, credulous, exploitable, hinky



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