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chicken lights
What does chicken lights mean?
Non-required decorative LED or incandescent marker lights drivers add to cabs, fenders, mudflap hangers, and trailers — way beyond what DMV requires. Comes from the same world as chicken haulers: southern poultry-fleet drivers who pioneered the maximalist look. A truck 'lit up like a chicken coop' is the goal.
"He put 200 chicken lights on his Pete before the Louisville show."
Origin
Linked to 'chicken hauler' culture — poultry-fleet rigs were the original lit-up show trucks.
Frequently asked questions
What are chicken lights?
Chicken lights are the extra decorative marker lights bolted all over a show truck.
How do you use chicken lights in a sentence?
A trucker might say 'He's got chicken lights running down every panel of that rig.'
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