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Spring chicken   /sprɪŋ tʃˈɪkən/   Listen
Spring chicken

noun
1.
A young person (especially a young man or boy).  Synonyms: young person, younker, youth.
2.
A young chicken having tender meat.





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"Spring chicken" Quotes from Famous Books



... said Bud, with a wink, "an' we'll fool 'em all. Them Injuns never went nowhere except inter ther east. I throwed out a blast o' hot atmosphere erbout them goin' west. That wuz ter fool ole nosey Ben, who had his neck stretched out like a spring chicken's ter hear what was bein' said, an' git ther advantage ...
— Ted Strong in Montana - With Lariat and Spur • Edward C. Taylor


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