chick flick
nounEtymology From chick (“young woman”) + flick (“movie”), chosen for the rhyme.
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Colloquial, Derogatory, Informal 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!”2017 March 2, Gloria Steinem, “Women Have ‘Chick Flicks.’ What About Men?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
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Dated, Slang 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.1988, The Bergen County Record:
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Derogatory, Slang Any film depicting young women or teenage girls as the main characters.
- Derived terms
- chick flickish
- Related terms
- date movie, tear jerker