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Chicken tikka masala

Chicken tikka masala is a British curry of tandoor-roasted marinated chicken in a spiced tomato-cream sauce, created in Britain's South Asian restaurants; origin is contested between Glasgow's Shish Mahal chef Ali Ahmed Aslam and Indian precursors like butter chicken.

Chickenfoot

Chickenfoot: American hard rock supergroup formed 2008 by Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony, Joe Satriani, and Chad Smith; Gold 2009 debut, Chickenfoot III (2011), LV, Best + Live.

Chickenhare and the Secret of the Groundhog

Chickenhare and the Secret of the Groundhog (Hopper et le secret de la marmotte) is a 2025 nWave animated sequel directed by Benjamin Mousquet, following the half-hare hero's quest for a time-reversing groundhog, premiered at Annecy June 12, 2025.

Chickpea protein

Chickpea protein, from Cicer arietinum seeds (18-29% protein), is prepared as flour, concentrates, and isolates by dry or wet extraction. Tate & Lyle's chickpea protein concentrate received an FDA no-questions GRAS letter (GRN 1098, August 2023) for use levels up to 90% in specified foods.

Chiclete com Banana

Chiclete com Banana is a Brazilian axé band from Salvador, Bahia, formed in the late 1970s and fronted by Bell Marques until 2014, known for Carnival anthems like "Voa Voa".

Chiclets

Chiclets is a candy-coated chewing gum brand of small square pieces, named after chicle tree sap. Introduced by Fleer in 1904, it passed from American Chicle to Perfetti Van Melle in 2023; US production ended in 2016.

Chico and Rita

Chico and Rita (Chico y Rita) is a 2010 Spanish-British adult animated musical romance by Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal, and Tono Errando, with music by Bebo Valdés; it won a Goya and a European Film Award and was Oscar-nominated for Best Animated Feature.

Chico and the Man

Chico and the Man, NBC sitcom 1974–1978 created by James Komack, starring Jack Albertson as Ed Brown and Freddie Prinze as Chico Rodriguez; first US sitcom with a Chicano lead, set in East LA.

Chico Buarque

Chico Buarque, full name Chico Buarque de Holanda, is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, and novelist born in 1944 whose songs became central to Brazilian popular music.

CHICO CARLITO

CHICO CARLITO (チコ・カルリート) is a Japanese rapper born in 1993 in Naha, Okinawa, who won the ULTIMATE MC BATTLE in 2015 and released the album Sandra's Son in 2022.

Chico Che y La Crisis

Chico Che y La Crisis was a Mexican tropical group from Villahermosa, Tabasco, founded in 1968 by singer-songwriter Chico Che, famous for cumbia hits like "¿Quén Pompó?".

Chico DeBarge

Chico DeBarge (Jonathan Arthur DeBarge, born 1966), American R&B singer, youngest DeBarge sibling, never in the group DeBarge; known for "Talk to Me" (1986) and the 1997 prison-inspired comeback album Long Time No See.

Chico Lobo

Chico Lobo (born 1963) is a Brazilian violeiro, composer, and singer from São João del-Rei, Minas Gerais, who has recorded more than 30 viola caipira albums.

Chico Marx

Chico Marx (Leonard Marx, 1887–1961), eldest Marx Brother, played the fake-Italian con artist and piano soloist in films from The Cocoanuts (1929) to Love Happy (1949); nickname from Art Fisher's poker-game 'chicks' joke.

Chico Science

Chico Science, born Francisco de Assis França, was a Brazilian singer and bandleader from Recife who founded manguebeat, fusing maracatu with rock and hip-hop, before dying in a 1997 car accident.

Chidambara

Chidambara (चिदंबरा) is a Hindi poetry collection by Sumitranandan Pant, first published in 1958, that gathers selected poems from 1937 to 1957 and brought Pant the Jnanpith Award.

Chidimma Adetshina

Chidimma Vanessa Onwe Adetshina, Nigerian-South African law student and beauty queen; Miss Universe Nigeria 2024 winner, first runner-up at Miss Universe 2024 and Miss Universe Africa and Oceania after withdrawing from Miss South Africa 2024 in a citizenship dispute.

Chidiya Ghar (चिड़िया घर)

Chidiya Ghar (चिड़िया घर), Hindi for zoo, is a Sony SAB Indian sitcom (2011–2017, about 1,522 episodes) about the Narayan family, whose members bear animal names and traits, produced by Ashwini Dhir.

Chief creative officer

Chief creative officer (CCO): executive leading an organization's creative department and creative strategy in advertising, design, and media; manages creative directors and art directors, sets brand-aligned creative goals, typically after 10-plus years of creative experience.

Chief Dan George

Chief Dan George, born Geswanouth Slahoot (1899–1981), was a Tsleil-Waututh chief and actor from North Vancouver, Oscar-nominated as Old Lodge Skins in Little Big Man (1970).

Chief Detective 1958 (수사반장 1958)

Chief Detective 1958 (수사반장 1958) is MBC's 2024 ten-episode Friday-Saturday prequel to the classic series Chief Detective (1971–1989), starring Lee Je-hoon as young detective Park Young-han at Jongnam Police Station in 1958; it premiered at 10.1% nationwide, a record MBC Fri-Sat debut, and ended at 10.6%.

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, also known as Armand Gamache, is a fictional detective by Louise Penny who leads the Three Pines mystery series set in Quebec's Eastern Townships.

Chief Keef

Chief Keef (Keith Farrelle Cozart, born 1995, Chicago) is the drill rapper behind "I Don't Like" and "Love Sosa"; his 2012 album Finally Rich and Interscope deal popularized Chicago drill worldwide.

Chief of Station (film)

Chief of Station: 2024 action thriller directed by Jesse V. Johnson, starring Aaron Eckhart as ex-CIA station chief Ben Malloy, with Olga Kurylenko and Alex Pettyfer; released May 3, 2024 by Vertical, grossing $70,162.

Chief of War

Chief of War is a 2025 Apple TV+ nine-episode historical drama created by Jason Momoa and Thomas Pa'a Sibbett about the unification of Hawai'i, starring Momoa as Ka'iana, largely in the Hawaiian language, with a predominantly Polynesian cast; no second season has been announced.

Chief's blanket

A chief's blanket is a finely woven wearing blanket made by Diné (Navajo) weavers of the Southwestern United States, woven wider than long and worn wrapped around the shoulders.

Chieko-shō

Chieko-shō (智恵子抄) is a 1941 poetry collection by the Japanese poet and sculptor Takamura Kōtarō, tracing his love for his wife Chieko from courtship through her death in 1938.

Chiello

Chiello (Rocco Modello, born 1999 in Venosa, Italy) is an Italian rapper and singer-songwriter, a founding frontman of the trap collective FSK Satellite and a solo artist since 2021.

Chiemi Eri

Chiemi Eri (江利チエミ) was a Japanese singer and actress, one of the postwar "Three Girls" with Hibari Misora, known for jazz minyo and the Sazae-san films.

Chiffon (fabric)

Chiffon (fabric): a sheer, lightweight plain-weave cloth woven from fine, highly twisted alternating S- and Z-twist yarns, 30-60 g/m2, originally French silk, now mostly polyester, used for gowns, scarves, and dupattas.