chicken dance noun2 •A simple modern dance, performed to a version of Werner Thomas's Bird Song or Birdie Song, in which certain moves mimic the movements of a chicken. •Ellipsis of prairie chicken dance (“traditional Native American dance”).There is a laughable account of one of these "chicken-dances," as the Americans call them, in the first volume of the late Mr. T. Keast Lord's 'The Naturalist in British Columbia.' — 1876 formschicken dances
