Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun spring_chicken

2 senses of spring chicken

Sense 1
young person, youth, younker, spring chicken -- (a young person (especially a young man or boy))
       => juvenile, juvenile person -- (a young person, not fully developed)

Sense 2
spring chicken -- (a young chicken having tender meat)
       => chicken, Gallus gallus -- (a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl)