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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
spring chicken
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After all, you're thirty now and no spring chicken yourself any more.
▪ Eloff is no longer a spring chicken - nor is he in control of Northern Transvaal.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
spring chicken

Chicken \Chick"en\, n. [AS. cicen, cyceun, dim. of coc cock; akin to LG. kiken, k["u]ken, D. Kieken, kuiken, G. k["u]chkein. See Cock the animal.]

  1. A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.

  2. A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden; same as spring chicken. ``Stella is no chicken.''
    --Swift.

    Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; -- so called because first studied during the prevalence of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true cholera.

Wiktionary
spring chicken

n. A chicken for eating while it is still young.

WordNet
spring chicken

  1. n. a young person (especially a young man or boy) [syn: young person, youth, younker]

  2. a young chicken having tender meat