chicken hawk

Also called hen hawk. (not used scientifically) any of various hawks said to prey on poultry.

Slang. an older man who seeks out young boys as sexual partners.

Origin of chicken hawk

An Americanism dating back to 1820–30

That man's afraid o' me—jess as 'fraid as a chicken-hawk is of a gun, seh!

John March, Southerner |George W. Cable
The goshawk and chicken-hawk, in the amount of damage done, far exceed all other birds of prey.

Checking the Waste |Mary Huston Gregory
"There wouldn't be any chicken-hawk around here in these woods," said Joan.

Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks |Lillian Elizabeth Roy
The name "chicken-hawk" is given to two or three different species of large broad-winged hawks of the genus Buteo.

Elementary Zoology, Second Edition |Vernon L. Kellogg

She actilly did seem as if she was made out of steel springs and chicken-hawk.

The Attache |Thomas Chandler Haliburton