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Definitions

chicken out

VERB
back down
Synonyms
WEAK
avoid back down back out back pedal beg off blow it off bow out cancel cop out funk out get cold feet give up give way go back on have no stomach for make concessions pull out recant renege resign scratch shy from surrender throw in the towel turn yellow weasel out wiggle out wimp out withdraw worm out yield

Example Sentences

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Talking to the only other couple who managed not to chicken out like we did, I’ll never forget the looks on their faces when they learned we’d left in the midnight hour.

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2025

“We gave them the freedom to finish it, and not cop out. We didn’t want to chicken out of anything.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2022

And now Chelsi Stone is glad she didn’t chicken out.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2022

I’m at my most powerful the moment I pull a perfect roast chicken out of the oven, and little makes me happier than sending my friends home full.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2021

I choose a Mozart piece that Grandpa used to like, turn the volume way down, and press the Play button before I can chicken out.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.