spring chicken

Questions about spring chicken

What does spring chicken mean?

spring chicken means "a young person (especially a young man or boy)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for spring chicken?

Close synonyms include young person, youth, younker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spring chicken a common word?

spring chicken is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.