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Noun: spring chicken  spring'chi-kun
  1. A young person (especially a young man or boy)
    - youth, younker
     
  2. A young chicken having tender meat

Derived forms: spring chickens

Type of: chicken, chook [Austral, NZ, informal], Gallus gallus, juvenile, juvenile person

Encyclopedia: Spring chicken

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