chicken head

Also found in: Medical.

chicken head

(graphics, abuse)

The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part. Rendered in ASCII as "C=".

With the arguable exception of the Amiga, Commodore's computers are notoriously crocky little bitty boxes (see also PETSCII). Thus, this usage may owe something to Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (the basis for the movie "Blade Runner"; the novel is now sold under that title), in which a "chickenhead" is a mutant with below-average intelligence.

This article is provided by FOLDOC - Free Online Dictionary of Computing (foldoc.org)

Mentioned in ?

References in periodicals archive ?

"I remember thinking, 'is it really a chicken head?'

Mum quits meat after children find bird's SEVERED HEAD in Iceland chicken wings; Ceanne Reid, from Birmingham, was disgusted the kids found the animal's head in their Let's Eat American BBQ Chicken Wings from Iceland

That is the opinion of Cambusnethan takeaway Tandoori Mahal manager George Bett after the popular eatery was accused of serving a customer an entire chicken head.

FOUL PLAY

The helmet - as it is aptly called - is marinated chicken head (sometimes with neck), barbequed and eaten with your choice of sauce or vinegar.

Top 7 Filipino street food options in Dubai

We were served not just chicken, but the whole chicken head, feet, the lot.

UNIQUE TOUR WAS MADE IN CHINA - WILE

School, the giant revolving (winking) chicken head and the doggie drinking fountain, cathedrals of the culture industry, on Broadway: downtown Los Angeles, on anything but the Ecology of Fear: an interview with Mike Davis, and mock up: the persistence of beige.

LA Forum Reader: From the Archives of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Among the grilled items are liempo, chicken or pork barbecue, then the bits and pieces: pig ears are called Walkman, the grandfather of today's iPod, dating the name to the 1970s when Sony made the first portable cassette players that changed life as we know it; Adidas are grilled chicken feet in reference to the sneakers brand; IUD refers to the grilled or fried intestine presented like the intrauterine device used for birth control; Helmet refers to the grilled chicken head; Betamax is curdled pig blood served in rectangles or squares that resembled the old video cassettes slipped into a 1970s player called Betamax; and Kurbata or necktie refers to chicken neck.

Black Nazarene and street food

Using a stomach scope, he removed from the dog's belly a plastic chicken head, a decapitated horse's body, a complete sheep and a pig, plus several pieces of the wire used to hold the diorama together.

Too courteous for a life of crime

In a more publicized incident, a chicken head was found intact in the chicken wings ordered from another local McDonald store.

Beware Before Sipping McDonald's Coffee: Customer Reportedly Found Dead Mouse In His Cup

Product Measurement Amount of premium (MkD) Vegetable kg 1.50 Tobacco kg 60 Cow milk Liter 2.50 Beef cattle for fattening head 1,500 Pigs head 1,000 Broilers head 25 Chicken head 22

Tobacco farming providing livelihood for over 35,000 families: the raw manufactured tobacco is the most important agricultural product which is exported with an export value of about 80 million euro in 2009. In 2010 in compliance with the program for subsidizing tobacco 23 million euros was allocated in subsidies

His chicken head was ripped off in an altercation with a 15-year-old girl in a shopping centre..

THE WAY AHEAD; From cruise ships to trains, Peter Elson reports on the future of transport as seen by the three main parties

Mr Cameron, who had been braced for the confrontation, tried to turn the tables by giving the man a hug, removing his chicken head to talk to him face to face and asking him what question he wanted to ask.

Angry chicken fails to get Cameron in a flap

But Mr Cameron tried to turn the tables by giving the bird man a hug, removing his chicken head to talk to him face to face and asking him what question he wanted to ask.