spring chicken

/ˈsprɪŋ ˌtʃɪkən/

Other forms: spring chickens

Definitions of spring chicken

1. noun

   a young chicken having tender meat
   type of:

   Gallus gallus, chicken

   a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl
2. noun

   a young person (especially a young man or boy)
   synonyms: young person, younker, youth

   types:

   blade

   a dashing young man

   hobbledehoy

   an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy

   pup, puppy

   an inexperienced young person

   pupil, school-age child, schoolchild

   a young person attending school (up through senior high school)

   slip

   a young and slender person

   waif

   a person, especially a young woman, who is extremely thin

   boarder

   a pupil who lives at school during term time

   day boarder

   a schoolchild at a boarding school who has meals at school but sleeps at home

   latchkey child

   a school-age child who is home without adult supervision for part of the day (especially after school until a parent returns home from work)

   schoolboy

   a boy attending school

   type of:

   juvenile, juvenile person

   a young person, not fully developed