bantam
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- n any of various small breeds of fowl
- s very small
- He carries memories of earlier performances (the bantam bombast of Dog Day Afternoon, the nervous belt tugging from American Buffalo, the crook'd arm from his Broadway Richard .
- You could add that Andre is a lithe sex symbol who wears sequined pants, avoids drugs and worries about the state of the world, while Big Boi is a bantam who wears throwback .
- Sean Penn strikes that note, playing him with a kind of bantam-rooster energy--and good-ole-boy charm.