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Chickenshit
WWII troop slang for military bureaucratic bullshit. The word implies that the regulations in question are so silly and trifling that they don't measure up to the level of bullshit. Subsequently, the word came to be merely an intensification of the epithet chicken.

In life and death matters, soldiers relied on their common sense and ignored the chickenshit regulations their superiors foisted upon them whenever possible.
By Sandy
Chickenshit
1) Petty regulations that don't make it to the level of bullshit. A favorite purview of martinets and high-handed bureaucrats.

2) Afraid; cringing; cowardly; reluctant to get off one's ass and put up.

3) Unintelligible verbiage, scrawl, or scritch-scratch.

The new CO's chickenshit was driving the first sergeant batshit; he had bigger things to worry about than snapping salutes from a quarter-mile away, with the enemy waiting just over the hill.

He was too chickenshit to go down to the cellar and deal with Leatherface.

I can't make heads or tails out of this chickenshit they added to the agreement. Tell them to clarify it so we know we're eye-to-eye.
By Bonni
Chickenshit
Name for people who are cowardly

That chickenshit can't kill a fly.
By Roanna
Chickenshit
a coward, an unmanly being,a man without testicles,a pussy

Mark:James come to the senior lot and cut with us.
James:Bro, I cant, i dont want to walk passed the security gaurd.
Mark:Chickenshit
By Carlene
Chickenshit
A construction term for minute, small in scale or insignificant.

They are sending me all the way across town to build a chickenshit stem wall that's only three feet tall!
By Debee
Chickenshit
(n) a McNugget (also can be used in plural)

"I'll have the 10-piece chickenshit value meal."
"Would you like to super-size?"
"Will my chickenshit also be super-sized?"
"No, only the fries and drink. The chickenshit will remain the same size."
"Oh, I guess not then."
"What kind of sauce would you like with your chickenshit?"
"Does it matter?"
By Junia
Chickenshit
Similar to bullshit, but even more extreme. Used when the person is completely lying.

Chris: I nailed 8 bitches last night yo

Joe: Thats a bunch of chickenshit
By Jessi
Chickenshit
According to Paul Fussel's book "Wartime," "Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power and authority and prestige; sadism thinly disguised as necessary discipline; a constant 'paying off of old scores'; and insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances. Chickenshit is so called--instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit--because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously."

This definition is cited by at least two books by Steven E. Ambrose, "Citizen Soldiers" and "Band of Brothers."

Soldier 1: I got fined $25 this morning!

Soldier 2: What for?

Soldier 1: Some rear-echelon type saw me and said that I wasn't maintaing a professional appearance. I can't help it that we've been living in foxholes for the last week and because of the snipers, I can't shave.

Soldier 2: That's chickenshit.
By Mariele
Chickenshit
A North-American vulgar slang for a cowardly and timid person. Also an alternative to describing a person as a chicken.

Bob: Why won't James play a prank on the teacher?
Jack: Meh, he's just a little chickenshit.
By Corinne
Chickenshit
One who is cowardly are has a phobia

What you wont jack that asshole? You chickenshit!
By Josephine