chicken breast

American  

noun

Pathology.

1. a congenital or acquired malformation of the chest in which there is abnormal projection of the sternum and the sternal region, often associated with rickets.

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chicken breast British  

noun

1. pathol another name for pigeon breast

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Other Word Forms

• chicken-breastedness
  noun
• chicken-breasted
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of chicken breast

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

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chicken breast

“Sales of our proteins and modifiers have increased 300 to 400%. They’ll substitute out three ounces of chicken and get a full chicken breast, which is eight ounces of chicken.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

Nationally, a pound of chicken breast cost $4.15 and cheddar cheese cost $5.79 a pound, both little changed from a year earlier, according to the Labor Department.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

There was the chicken breast I marinated in lemon juice, rice vinegar and balsamic reduction — a trio I would now classify, gently, as a vinaigrette bloodbath.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2025

It’s a grilled chicken breast, and I get it with a double side of steamed broccoli instead of rice.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025

He ate his chicken breast and started on the thigh, looking at me now and then in his hard way.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd