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

Derived Forms

• chicken-breasted
  adjective
• chicken-breastedness
  noun

Etymology

Origin of chicken breast

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

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

So it’s as all-natural as his daily diet of organic chicken breast that the wrestler-turned-blockbuster-star would want to play Kerr in his own pursuit of excellence.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025

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

In the experiments the researchers cooked chicken breast using five different methods: pan frying, stir-frying, deep-fat frying, boiling and air-frying, in a well-controlled research kitchen.

From Science Daily • Nov. 26, 2024

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