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CHICKEN WIRE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does chicken wire mean?

• CHICKEN WIRE (noun)
The noun CHICKEN WIRE has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: CHICKEN WIRE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CHICKEN WIRE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("chicken wire" is a kind of...):

mesh; meshing; meshwork; net; network (an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals)

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