Definition:
: a motion picture intended to appeal especially to women
About the Word:
Random, obscure baseball trivia: Chick Flick was the name of a manager of Rustic Tavern, a semi-professional team in Indiana in the 1940s and 1950s. It would be rather lovely if somehow the modern term for the ostensibly feminine movie came from this man’s name, but that is not the case.
Chick flick differs from many of the other words on this list in that each of its parts is itself a regularized (albeit shortened and somewhat non-standard) word in English: chick is a colloquial term for a young woman (taken ultimately from chicken); flick is from flicker (an early slang word for a movie).
Example:
"It would be several years of walk-ons and bit parts in films like Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) and Twilight People (1972), which the critics said could put insomniacs to sleep, before Grier would land a starring role in Corman's Black Mama, White Mama (1972), another chick-flick set in a slammer in the Philippines." — Michael Matza, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 25 August 1988
