keed

Noun

kid (countable and uncountable, plural kids)

1. (informal) A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
   • She's a kid. It's normal for her to have imaginary friends.

   Synonyms:

   bairn, brat, child, chit, crumb cruncher, crumb crusher, crumb grinder, crumb snatcher, fry, juvenile

   1. (informal) A person whose childhood took place in a particular time period or area.
      • Only '90s kids will remember this toy.
   2. (informal) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
      • This is Bobby, he is our youngest kid.
   3. (informal) Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.
      • Here's looking at you, kid.1942, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casablanca, spoken by Rick (Humphrey Bogart)
   4. (colloquial, informal) An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.
      • I remember as a kid lawyer working at IBM in the summer of 1983, when a large insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut, for the first time asked to buy 12000 IBM PCs in a single order.2007 June 3, Eben Moglen, speech, Freeing the Mind: Free Software and the end of proprietary culture
2. A young goat.
   • He treated the oxen like they didn't exist, but he treated the goat kid like a puppy.

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