chicken-and-egg
chicken–and–egg
adjDefinition of CHICKEN-AND-EGG
: of, relating to, or being a cause-and-effect dilemma
See Origin of CHICKEN-AND-EGG
from the proverbial question “which came first, the chicken or the egg?”
First Known Use: 1959
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