chicken-shit
noun
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Petty and contemptible thing(s).
Example: Don't waste your time on that chickenshit.
A coward.
Example: I told him I wasn't having his insults, and he just backed right down. What a chickenshit.
A low-ranking officer who lords over and needlessly makes life miserable for his underlings; a petty, abusive martinet.
adjective
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Petty and contemptible; contemptibly unimportant. (Compare bullshit.)
Cowardly.
Example: How chickenshit of that girl to just stand there and do nothing.