Talk:rubber chicken
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to rubber chicken. Other dictionaries in OneLook have rubber chicken, not rubber-chicken dinner. There are abundant other collocations of rubber chicken both as a substantive and in attributive use. One common one is "rubber-chicken circuit". Examples of other nouns following rubber-chicken are lunch, banquet, affair, meal, fundraiser. Substantive use can be found in usages such as: Fortunately we'll spare everyone the rubber chicken and the speeches and simply acknowledge the guidance and vision of the world's best agent/coach/editor.
Rubber chicken is not identical to rubber (“rubbery”) + chicken either, though that is its origin. It specifically refers to the kind of organizational meals-with-speeches that crowd a politician's schedule, but also characterize conventions, off-site meetings, etc. DCDuring TALK 13:39, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
Done. — excarnateSojourner (talk · contrib) 22:12, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
- But it's a noun, used attributively, not an adjective. DCDuring (talk) 23:08, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
