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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
henhawk .
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Examples
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I think a champion of the beliefs of Dick Cheney, with his five deferments and then a quickie child to stay out of Vietnam, would be more careful in use of “chicken-hawk”.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy 2010
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A chicken-hawk president who campaigns as a democrat then acts as a republican.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy 2010
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It reminds me, sadly, of the chicken-hawk moment in the blogosphere, when Bush was liberator hero-god in 2003.
Matthew Yglesias » The Strange Death of the Public Option 2010
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So unlike the cowardly chicken-hawk draft dodgers Cheney and Bush Jr.
Obama calls for American unity on Afghanistan war effort 2009
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Why is this discredited, failed chicken-hawk still chirping and why does anyone care?
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One could argue that Skynet is/was also a chicken-hawk.
Think Progress » Cheney: Telling Leahy to ‘f*ck’ himself was ‘sort of the best thing I ever did.’ 2010
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Leave it to someone from Mississippi to sound like a chicken-hawk and blame everybodies troubles on Obama.
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If we listened to those hypocritical chicken-hawk rethugliklans we'd be claiming the moral high ground of "freedom and liberty" (whatever that means) and at the same time be sending B52s over to Iran to bomb them into oblivian.
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If any thing rushbuttboil would have her apologizing to him the king of the Hate wing chicken-hawk coward retarded party.
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Dick Cheney is nothing more than a chicken-hawk loser Republicon.
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