chicken feed

n. Slang.

A trifling amount of money.

noun

A small or trifling amount of money: small change. Informal peanut (used in plural). Slang two bits. See big/small/amount, money.

Trifling amount of money, as in I'm not going to mow lawns for $5 an hour--that's chicken feed. This expression alludes to the fact that chickens can be fed corn and wheat grains too small for other uses. [Slang; early 1800s]

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IN BRIEF: n. - A trifling sum of money, Food for hens.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: dry mash for poultry
  Synonym: scratch

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