From the mid-20th-centuryadvertisingjingle ofStarKist brand cannedtuna. Since used popularly at large for any tuna.

chickenofthesea (uncountable)

1. (US, food, colloquial)Tuna.

• chickpea of the sea

• cockroach of the sea

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