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chicken-in-a-basket circuit

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.85 in modern English

Syllables
chick-en-in-a-bas-ket -cir-cuit
IPA
44
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
8
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Relatively small venues offering evening entertainment such as music and comedy, from the point of view of the entertainers who find work there.

British usage; Informal

Etymology

From the ubiquity of chicken served in a basket in entertainment venues in the 1970s.

Usage

Inflected Forms

the chicken-in-a-basket circuit (canonical)

Questions

What does chicken-in-a-basket circuit mean?
Relatively small venues offering evening entertainment such as music and comedy, from the point of view of the entertainers who find work there.
Where does chicken-in-a-basket circuit come from?
From the ubiquity of chicken served in a basket in entertainment venues in the 1970s.

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