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Spring chicken

noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A chicken for eating while it is still young.
  2. 2
    a young chicken having tender meat wordnet
  3. 3
    A person who is still young. informal

    "It is a special day for you indeed, for both of us, bodies incorporeal, receptive always to life's joys appreciative in any way I can, you like to remind me were both getting old; I'd remind you that, at fifty-five, you're still a spring chicken."

  4. 4
    a young person (especially a young man or boy) wordnet

Etymology

From spring + chicken. First appears c. 1765 in The Public Advertiser.

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