chicken-and-egg problem

English

Noun

chicken-and-egg problem (plural chicken-and-egg problems)

  1. Alternative form of chicken-or-egg question.
    • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, →ISBN, page 370:
      "I think you have a chicken-and-egg problem," Uncle Unzo says. "How did such a society first come to be organized?"
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