Noun: spring chicken spring'chi-kun
- A young chicken having tender meat
"We served spring chicken at the family dinner"
- A young person (especially a young man or boy)
"The old sailor told tales of his days as a spring chicken on the high seas";
- youth, younker [archaic]
Derived forms: spring chickens
Type of: chicken, chook [Austral, NZ, informal], Gallus gallus, juvenile, juvenile person
Encyclopedia: Spring chicken