Chicken Out: (1)

Grammar Tense Structure:

• Present Tense: chicken / chicken out
• Past Tense: chickened out
• Past Participle: chickened out
• Present Participle: chickening out

1: When you do not do something because you are afraid, you chicken out or chicken out of it.

non-separable phrasal verb – informal

• I was going to ask my crush out on a date, but I chickened out.
• I was so ready to ask for a pay rise but at the last moment I chickened out of asking my boss. I feel so bad now.
• He always says he will do it but always ends up chickening out.