Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A young chicken.
- noun One of the young of any bird.
- noun A child.
- noun Often Offensive A girl or young woman.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To sprout, as seed in the ground; vegetate.
- To crack.
- noun A name for the thick juice of the poppy, three pounds of which will make about one pound of opium.
- noun In India, a screen or curtain made of thin slips of bamboo with very narrow openings between them, allowing the admission of air and light, while excluding the view from the outside: it is hung in doorways and windows, both in houses and tents, and is the original of a kind of blind or shade now common in Europe and America.
- To peep; cheep; make the characteristic cry of a young chick.
- noun A chicken; particularly, the young of the domestic hen, and of some other birds, as partridges.
- noun An abbreviated form of
chickeen . - noun A crack; a flaw.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A chicken.
- noun A child or young person; -- a term of endearment.
- noun slang a young woman; -- often considered offensive.
- intransitive verb To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology A young
bird . - noun A young
chicken . - noun slang (
Discuss (+) this sense) A young (especially attractive) woman. - noun slang A woman.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun young bird especially of domestic fowl
- noun informal terms for a (young) woman
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The closest thing to interesting that SJP said is that she hates the term chick flicks, and that Sex and the City is a movie for men and women.
Shootout discusses "Chick Flicks" and Interviews Sarah Jessica Parkers Melissa Silverstein 2008
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So as I'm reading this piece I can't help but think that we are now moving back into a climate like the late 80s (remember the films of John Cusack and Kevin Costner at that time) where the romantic comedies (before the term chick flicks was coined) will again be starring men.
January 31, 2008 Melissa Silverstein 2008
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The term chick lit is "detrimental," but not because the literature is bad or hurtful, but because commercial literature by and for women continues to be seen as less substantial than its "male" counterpart.
Rachel Kramer Bussel: Interview With Lynn Harris: Death By Chick Lit 2008
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I can't believe that this chick is an international sex symbol starring in major motion pictures and meanwhile Markie Post can't get work anymore ...
Archive 2009-06-14 Tyler 2009
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I can't believe that this chick is an international sex symbol starring in major motion pictures and meanwhile Markie Post can't get work anymore ...
Megan Fox is hideously disgusting Tyler 2009
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This chick is an amazing cook - makes everything from scratch like every night for dinner for her and her husband.
Dudes… I suck. « 2009
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If there's a problem here it's about the word "chick".
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FB Nation, this chick is our BritBrit — we must take responsibility.
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If its real this chick is obviously just smarter than her sister.
I wish I'd thought of this in high school Tyler 2009
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Often times, they are merely listening to the sound of your voice while looking at pretty pictures, and not really internalizing that a chick is that fluffy yellow guy on the page.
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