chicken run

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Noun

chicken run (plural chicken runs)

  1. An enclosed area, attached to a chicken coop, in which poultry are allowed to run around and peck.
    Synonyms: chicken pen, chickenyard, chookyard
  2. (slang, historical) The act of "gapping it", i.e. emigrating from Rhodesia as a white inhabitant during the country's transition to independence.
    • 2019, David Kenrick, Decolonisation, Identity and Nation in Rhodesia, 1964-1979, page 2:
      By 1979, thousands had 'gapped it', or taken the 'chicken run', as emigration was derisively known []

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