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spring chicken

DEFINITIONS OF: spring chicken

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n a young chicken having tender meat

Type of:
Gallus gallus, chicken
a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl

n a young person (especially a young man or boy)

Synonyms:
young person, younker, youth
Types:
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blade
a dashing young man
hobbledehoy
an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy
pup, puppy
an inexperienced young person
pupil, school-age child, schoolchild
a young person attending school (up through senior high school)
slip
a young and slender person
boarder
a pupil who lives at school during term time
day boarder
a schoolchild at a boarding school who has meals at school but sleeps at home
latchkey child
a school-age child who is home without adult supervision for part of the day (especially after school until a parent returns home from work)
schoolboy
a boy attending school
Type of:
juvenile, juvenile person
a young person, not fully developed
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