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chicken-and-egg definition

chicken-and-egg (-ənd eg′)

adjective

of or relating to a paradoxical situation, question, etc. involving two factors, each of which in turn causes or leads to the other

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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