chick flick
See also: chick-flick
English
Alternative forms
- chick-flick
Etymology
chick + flick; see chick (“girl, woman”), flick (“film, movie”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
chick flick (plural chick flicks)
- (slang, often derogatory) A film, usually about romances, which is popular with females and comparatively unpopular with males.
- Synonyms: chick film, chick's flick
- (dated, slang) A sexually exploitative film depicting women, intended for straight men.
- 1988, The Bergen County Record:
- 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 Phillipines.
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Synonyms
- date movie
- tear jerker
Antonyms
- action adventure
Derived terms
- chick flickish
See also
- chick lit
- movie