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spring chickens

spring chickens is the plural of spring chicken.

Meaning of spring chicken

Noun

spring chicken (plural spring chickens)

  1. A chicken for eating while it is still young.
  2. (informal) A person who is still young.
    • You know the world. You are no spring chicken.1908, Upton Sinclair, chapter 5, in The Money Changers

Questions about spring chickens

What is spring chickens the plural of?
Spring chickens is the plural of spring chicken.

Words near spring chickens in the dictionary

  1. spring breakers
  2. spring breaks
  3. spring cart
  4. spring carts
  5. spring chicken
  6. spring chickens
  7. spring clean
  8. spring cleaning
  9. spring cleanings
  10. spring cleans
  11. spring constant

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