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chicken hawk
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chicken hawk
n.
1. Any of various hawks that prey on or have the reputation of preying on chickens.
2. often chick·en·hawk (chkn-hôk) Informal A person who favors military force or action to carry out a foreign policy but has never served in the military.
3. Vulgar Slang A man who seeks out boys or young men as his sexual partners.
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Noun1.chicken hawkchicken hawk - nontechnical term for any hawks said to prey on poultry
hen hawk
hawk - diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail


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Considering the secret meetings with energy executives, the manipulation and rewarding of bad WMD intelligence, the expanding gap between rich and poor, the growing national debt, poor postwar planning, the sliming of bona fide war heroes by chicken hawks, the tax breaks and rewarding of outsourcing, the defense of torture, the hiring of incompetents (Brownie?
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Along the way he hooks up with a series of middle-aged chicken hawks before falling for Red, a slightly older rent boy with aw-shucks charm and fiery locks.
Troublemaker by D.B. / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
To Lowry and his fellow chicken hawks in the Bush administration, it is just not possible that an American soldier could commit a war crime.
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