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Meaning of chicken dance | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. 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.
  2. Ellipsis of prairie chicken dance (“traditional Native American dance”).
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Equivalents

Deutsch Ententanz
Français danse des canards

Examples

“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.'”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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