Spring chicken
noun, slang
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A chicken for eating while it is still young.
- 2 a young chicken having tender meat wordnet
- 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 a young person (especially a young man or boy) wordnet
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From spring + chicken. First appears c. 1765 in The Public Advertiser.