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chicken-and-egg

[ chik-uhn-uhn-eg, -uhnd- ]

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or being a dilemma of which of two things came first or of which is the cause and which the effect:

    a chicken-and-egg question of whether matter or energy is the basis of the universe.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of chicken-and-egg1

First recorded in 1955–60
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Example Sentences

“It is a chicken-and-egg thing,” says one senior Western diplomat in Doha.

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