a)Needlessly taking charge. b)Using authority to get one's way or to get back at somebody. c)A need to demonstrate one's authority.
"That cop could have let me go, but he was just being chicken-shit and gave me a ticket anyway."
by Nathan Strong August 19, 2003
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The third hit of mary-jane on the same light.
"I got greens!"
"I got deuces!"
"Aw man, I got the chicken shit..."
by Sexibitchez January 30, 2012
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Derisive, North American vulgarims with 2 shades of meaning:

A) Archaic (WWII-era) army slang for someone whose brand of shit was too small-minded and lame to be called bullshit or horseshit. This was typically an obnoxious, petty tyrant of an officer, particularly the kind who liked to push people around with made-up rules and regulations. Best exemplified in popular culture by the character of Frank Burns on M.A.S.H.

B) A coward; basically calling them chicken, with a 4-letter word tacked on for emphasis.

(Please note that these two definitions CAN overlap.)
A) "All through your Army careers, you men have bitched about what you call 'chicken shit drilling'." - George S. Patton, 1944

B) "That's a good answer, Wykowski. It's a chickenshit answer, but it's a good one." - Christopher Walken as Sgt. Merwin J. Toomey, "Biloxi Blues," 1988
by The Urban Husky May 1, 2011
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Fighting a drunk or dopesick junkie is one of the most chicken shit things anybody (male or female) has ever done. It's a lot like fighting someone who's fallen asleep. Like a bullfighter, a drunkfighter/junkiefighter gets somebody in a weakened state before taking them on. These are the same people who would be quick to jump somebody with 3 friends, but without the extra help would find themselves helpless.
Any chicken shit can fight a drunk or junkie whose mind is somewhere else.

The chicken shit at the road house would get a hard on when he saw a drunk guy getting belligerent, because he thought of the guy as an easy target. His dick would get even harder when he thought of how he would look to the females at the roadhouse fighting the drunk belligerent asshole (even though his buddies couldn't take some of these drunk guys two on one).
by Solid Mantis September 13, 2019
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Somebody who would kill symbolically to prove the point that they're not a chicken shit is a chicken shit.
The girl behind the bombing was trying to show the asshole she could hurt someone with disabilities, especially over being called out for being a chicken shit.
by Solid Mantis September 16, 2019
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