chicken hawk

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   nontechnical term for any hawks said to prey on poultry

   Synonymshen hawk

   Broaderhawk

Questions about chicken hawk

What does chicken hawk mean?

chicken hawk means "nontechnical term for any hawks said to prey on poultry".

What is another word for chicken hawk?

Close synonyms include hen hawk. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chicken hawk a common word?

chicken hawk is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.