spring chicken
n. A young chicken, especially one from two to ten months old, having tender meat. Slang A young person.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Slang Dictionary
spring chicken
- n.
a young and naive person, especially a young woman. (Usually in the negative.) : Well, I may not be a spring chicken, but I got some spizzerinktum left.
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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