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chicken run

noun

  1. the departure of white residents from South Africa

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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I first watched Brighton in the 1963-64 season, on the "chicken run" at the Goldstone Ground.

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"Further, she was arrested for possession of 1 high-cost house, four chicken runs, and associated external works in the property," the agency added.

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An instant later Taran heard a loud clucking and squawking from the chicken run.

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Another visitor, a young boy, sat in a tree above the family’s chicken coop for more than an hour as he watched the hens move along the chicken run.

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The baby birds lived inside the family’s home for six weeks before moving into the chicken run in the yard.

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