chicken stakes

English

Noun

chicken stakes pl (plural only)

  1. Small paltry stakes.
    • 2010, Joan Smith, Dangerous Dalliance:
      “We play for chicken stakes,” Bunny told him. “Pennies.”

References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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