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chicks

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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.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English chike, variant of chiken chicken

chic, chick.
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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
EXPAND
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.
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chick definition


  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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