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chick flick

noun

Etymology

From chick (“young woman”) + flick (“movie”), chosen for the rhyme.

  1. inherited from flykke — “light blow or stroke”
  2. compounded as chick flick — “chick + flick”

Definitions

  1. A film, typically about romance, which is generally more popular with women than men.

    • She went with a couple friends to see a chick flick about some girl dating an astronaut.
    • I was on a flight from New York to Seattle when a long delay on the tarmac prompted the airline to offer us a free movie. As the flight attendant read the choices aloud, a young man across the aisle said, “I don’t watch chick flicks!”

  2. A sexually exploitative or pornographic film depicting women, intended for straight men.

    • Films like Russ Meyers’ ‘Beyond the Valley of the Dolls’ (1970) and ‘Twilight People’ (1972) […] Corman’s ‘Black Mama, White Mama’ (1972), another chick-flick set in a slammer in the Philippines.

  3. Any film depicting young women or teenage girls as the main characters.

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Derived

chick flickish

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA