chick

noun

1. 1

   A young bird.

   Near-synonyms: nestling, fledgling

   Published in the Communications Earth & Environment journal, scientists conclude that due to sea ice loss last year, it is highly probable that no chicks had survived from four of the five known emperor penguin colonies in the central and eastern Bellingshausen Sea in Antarctica.

2. 2

   A young bird. A young chicken.

   Neither chick nor child was left living the length of the seacoast.

3. 3

   An attractive, young woman; or, more generally, a woman.

   This chick's a machine but her friend is way more fun.

   They're going to have a chick weekend. No guys allowed.

   He'll fall for any chick with a nice smile.

   "I thought you had some common sense, Frank," said Uncle John; "but I see you are as great a fool as all the rest. Marry, indeed! A pretty chick to marry!"

4. 4

   slangA friendly fighter aircraft.

   The Aldis lamp flashes at the underside of each aircraft. It shows that the gear is down. Diegal is relaxing. This is such low responsibility, easy night duty. All the “chicks” (fighter aircraft) are home to roost except one.

5. 5

   datedA young child.

verb

1. 1

   obsoleteTo sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate.

   plowing in his oats with a very feet furrow; and, after they have “chicked” but before they appear aboveground

2. 2

   To compress the lips and then separate them quickly, resulting in a percussive noise.

   He chicked his lips; he cracked his whip; he winked with a knowing leer; he ran down the alley and up the stair, then down the stair and up the alley

noun

1. 1

   A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.

   1890, Rudyard Kipling, Letter to William Canton, 5 April, 1890, in Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis (eds.) Writings on writing by Rudyard Kipling, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 34, https://books.google.ca/books?id=-AQStA5QMjwC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Then, through a cautiously lifted chick, the old scene stands revealed […]

   It is not uncommon at meal-time to see the table servants chasing the sparrows about the room, endeavouring to drive them out while some one holds up the "chick" or bamboo net which covers the doorway.

   […] at this time of day all the verandas were curtained with green bamboo chicks.

   Outside I could hear the bamboo chick tapping on the door like a blind man's stick on a kerbstone.

noun

1. 1

   obsoleteA chickeen, or zecchino.

   Whenever master spends a chick I keep back two rupees, sir!

   "Can't do much harm by losing twenty chicks," observed the colonel, in Anglo-Indian argot, as the lot was knocked down to him; "and after all, there is a good deal of uncertainty about steeplechasing."

Forms

plural

chicks, chicken

past tense

chicked

past participle

chicked

present participle

chicking

third person singular

chicks