chicken dance
noun1
A simple modern dance, performed to a version of Werner Thomas's Bird Song or Birdie Song, in which certain moves mimic the movements of a chicken.
Preceded by definite article
2
Abbreviation, Ellipsis Ellipsis of prairie chicken dance (“traditional Native American dance”).
- There is a laughable account of one of these "chicken-dances," as the Americans call them, in the first volume of the late Mr. T. Keast Lord's 'The Naturalist in British Columbia.'1876, Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History, page 5072: