What's a "chickenhawk"?

Question

Does it have something to do with evolution?

Answer 1

Depends on context, how you are using it

It is a another name for Cooper's Hawk, the Sharp-shinned Hawk and the Red-tailed Hawk, none of which mainly eat chicken. They eat all kinds of birds.

It is a name for a man who like sex with young boys.

It is an epithet used in American politics to criticize a politician, bureaucrat, or commentator who votes for war, supports war, commands a war, or develops war policy, but has not personally served in the military, especially one who opted out of a previous war on dubious grounds. Sound like anyone you know?

Answer 2

Has nothing to do with evolution. In reality, a Chickenhawk is, I think, a species of hawk that eats chickens. The Looney Tunes character Charlie Chickenhawk (I think that's his name) is based upon a real-life chickenhawk.

In politics, a 'dove' is somebody who supports peace and a 'hawk' is somebody who supports war. A 'chickenhawk' is somebody who supports a war but is reluctant to fight himself. It's a name often used against the Bush administration as Dubya himself spent the Vietnam War not going to his Air National Guard base in Alabama, Cheney got a draft deferment, and I think Rove and a few others also avoided combat as well. It irks many people that these armchair warriors who never fought themselves are quick to shed the blood of other people...

Answer 3

A typical chickenhawk is your Commander-in-Thief, the ever cowardly, George W Bush.
He and 95% of his administration got out of going to Vietnam because they were above such things (because they were basically cowards) BUT had no hesitation in sending other mothers' sons to do the nasty in Iraq all for Big Oil and to line their own pockets with Dollars.
Chickenhawks are the most evil breed of coward.
An ordinary coward doesn't want anyone to go through what he went through.

Yes, I went to Vietnam - I have the psychological scars to prove it.

Answer 4

Dubya is an example of a chickenhawk. He never went to war himself, but he likes to send everybody else and pretend he's the one fighting.

I picture him at night in the White House, playing with his GI Joes.

Answer 5

It is a hawk that primarily hunt's chickens.

Primarily may not actually be the word I am looking for and I might even be confusing it with a smaller hawk that goes by a similar name. It is actually a hawk though.

Answer 6

In jailhouse talk it is a pedophile.

Answer 7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCb9lh3nVd0&mode=related&search=

Answer 8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenhawk_(politics)
It doesn't have anything to do with evolution.