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Discover LudwigThe phrase "an old chick" is correct and usable in written English, though it may be considered informal or colloquial.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to an older woman, often in a casual or humorous manner.
Example: "At the party, I met an old chick who had some fascinating stories from her youth."
Alternatives: "an older woman" or "a mature lady".
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Jonathan: "Never mind, sonny, I'm a horny old chick!" No familiar clichés for Jonathan.
Personally, I just thought, "She's a pretty old chick".
While I was thinking, "She's a pretty old chick," her age definitely didn't bother any of the males in the office, who adhere to that old Aaliyah adage: "Age ain't nothin' but a number".
Both strains were cloned with limiting dilution in 5-day old chick hosts (Gallus gallus domesticus) (INRA, France).
Be sure to not feed wet or old chick starter!
This particular chicken -- a small, fluffy bantam raised from a one-day-old chick -- had a name.
I couldn't decide if she was an older biker chick or a slightly faded apparition of a formerly grand dame.
P.D.: I'm kind of an old-school chick.
Ad/K1 5 or Ad/LacZ at a dose of 2 × 10 plaque-forming units (PFU), or PBS was implanted onto the CAMs of a 6-day-old chick embryo through a window made in the egg shell.
Using a 4-day-old chick embryo (Ohmiya Kakin Laboratories, Ohmiya, Japan) in a shell, 10 μl of sample mixed in 1% methyl cellulose/0.9% NaCl was applied to the ring on the surface of the CAM.
Even so, when I went to visit the Boves and was asked if I wanted to handle a six-week-old chick from the last "hatch," the avian equivalent of a litter, my heart melted.
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