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I don't eat chicken anymore. I won't eat it. I won't allow it in my house.
—Rodney Leonard -U.S. Poultry inspection
anapest
A metrical foot of three syllables, two short (or unstressed) followed by one long (or stressed), as in seventeen and to the moon. The anapest is the reverse of the dactyl.