「撐沙雞 / 撑沙雞」
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| Individual Character Meaning： |
撐 to support; to expand; support; withstand; to prop; to hold against; to hang on; to hold out; to persevere; to back somebody up; to open; to fill 沙 sand; small particles; grit 雞 chicken; a whistle |
| Variants： | Variants： 撐沙鷄 、 撑沙鷄 |
| Part of Speech： | verb |
| Explanation： |
a way of cheating on the weight by live poultry hawker, by filling sand brutally into a chicken's stomach; as slaughtering is also done by the hawker, customers can hardly know the trick
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