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chick

  [chik]
–noun
1. a young chicken or other bird.
2. a child.
3. Slang: Often Offensive. a girl or young woman.
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Origin:
1275–1325; ME chike, var. of chiken chicken

Co⋅re⋅a

  [kuh-ree-uh]
–noun
Ar⋅man⋅do Anthony [ahr-mahn-doh] , (“Chick”), born 1941, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
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chick   (chĭk)   
n.  

    1. A young chicken.

    2. The young of any bird.

  2. A child.

  3. Slang A girl or young woman.


[Middle English chike, variant of chiken, chicken; see chicken.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
chick

  1. n.
    a girl or woman. : We're gonna take some chicks to dinner and then catch a flick.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

chick 
c.1320, abbreviation of chicken (q.v.), extended to human offspring (often in alliterative pairing chick and child) and used as a term of endearment. As slang for "young woman" it is first recorded 1927 (in "Elmer Gantry"), supposedly from U.S. black slang, in British use by c.1940, popularized by Beatniks late 1950s. Chicken in this sense is from 1711. Sometimes c.1600-1900 chicken was taken as a plural, chick as a singular (cf. child/children) for the domestic fowl.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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