Noun

(en noun)

A young bird.

A young chicken.

(slang) (rft-sense) A woman (especially one who is young and/or attractive).

Three cool chicks / Are walking down the street / Swinging their hips — song "Three Cool Cats" by

* {{quote-book, year=1927, title=Elmer Gantry, author=Sinclair Lewis

, passage=He had determined that marriage now would cramp his advancement in the church and that, anyway, he didn't want to marry this brainless little fluffy chick , who would be of no help in impressing rich parishioners.}}

* {{quote-book, year=2004, title=Bad moon rising?, author=Tess Pendergrass

, passage=I can't believe you've got a hot chick in that ratty apartment with you.}}

Noun

(countable) A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus , especially when young

(uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.

(countable, slang) A coward.

(countable, gay slang) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair. Compare chickenhawk

(countable, slang) A young or inexperienced person.

* 1887 , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet , III:

"This case will make a stir, sir," he remarked. "It beats anything I have seen, and I am no chicken ."

* Jonathan Swift

Stella is no chicken .

A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the chicken (, the loser.)

Don't play chicken with a freight train; you're guaranteed to lose.

The game of dare.