chicken wire

1. 1.

   a galvanized wire network with a hexagonal mesh; used to build fences

   Broadernet

Questions about chicken wire

What does chicken wire mean?

chicken wire means "a galvanized wire network with a hexagonal mesh; used to build fences".

Is chicken wire a common word?

chicken wire 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.