Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various hawks that prey on or have the reputation of preying on chickens.
- noun Informal A person, especially a public figure, who favors military force or action to carry out a foreign policy but has never served in the military.
- noun Vulgar Slang A man who seeks out boys or young men as his sexual partners.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic, zoology Any of the North American
hawk species (Cooper's hawk ,sharp-shinned hawk andred-tailed hawk ), or counterparts elsewhere, mistakenly believed to bepests . - noun UK, US, gay slang An
adult male preferring younger malesexual partners . - noun pejorative, politics, slang An advocate of
war or military action who is avoiding personalmilitary service , or avoided it in the past.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun nontechnical term for any hawks said to prey on poultry
Etymologies
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chicken (in the Old English sense of cycen: young fowl, its aledged primary prey) + hawk
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