chick
IPA: tʃˈɪk
noun
- A young bird.
- A young chicken.
- (dated, endearing) A young child.
- (chiefly US, Canada, Australia, colloquial) A young, typically attractive, woman or teenage girl.
- (military, slang) A friendly fighter aircraft.
- (India, Pakistan) A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.
- A surname.
verb
- (obsolete) To sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate.
- To compress the lips and then separate them quickly, resulting in a percussive noise.
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Examples of "chick" in Sentences
- After this the chicks leave the nest.
- After this, the chicks leave the nest.
- The chicks followed the mother chicken.
- I was in it for the glory and the chicks.
- Both parents feed the chicks and fledged young.
- Insects are the predominant food of the chicks.
- The male will incubate the eggs and raise the chicks.
- The jackdaw will also eat small rodents, eggs, chicks.
- The egg is incubated for 45 days and the chick fledged at 100 days.
- Predatory gulls kept showing up at Eastern Egg Rock to harass puffins and kill chicks.
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