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spring chicken definition

☆ spring chicken

  1. a young chicken, esp. one used for broiling or frying
  2. Slang a young or inexperienced person

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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