chicken dinner

Roasted bird supper

A chicken dinner is a meal featuring chicken as the main course, often associated with comfort food, family gatherings, or church suppers.

The phrase winner winner chicken dinner celebrates victory, originally from gambling—a chicken dinner was roughly what a minimum bet could win in Las Vegas casinos.

In the video game PUBG, it's the victory screen message, making the phrase ubiquitous in gaming culture.

Opposites
meal outcome/result

chicken dinnertotal loss

Irreparably damaged item

defeat · bust · wipeout · loser · striking out

food quality/desirability

chicken dinnerstarvation

Extreme nutritional deprivation

going hungry · bread and water · gruel · empty plate · scraps

protein source

chicken dinnersteak dinner

Meal featuring grilled beef

fish dinner · lamb dinner

Family

chicken, dinner, chickens, dine, diner, diners, dining, dined, dinners

Familiarity
Top 50,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G