Definition of "broilers" [broilers]

• Plural form of broiler. (noun)

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• "Alabama's poultry industry is the third-largest in the US, producing about one billion meat chickens called broilers every year, and officials estimate it could be six months to a year before the industry resumes full production."
• "The capacities of the market-basket, as then and there revealed, are prodigious, rivalling those of the trunk of travel; and yet out of the cover will still protrude the legs of unadjustable "broilers" and the green fringes of garden-stuff, and all this not counting in the oyster-pail, or the great watermelon which has to be carried separately by its wooden handle."
• "Then the poultry will return a profitable income in eggs and in "broilers;" and altogether it is easy for an enthusiastic person to show how interest on invested capital and good compensation for labor are to be secured in agriculture."