chickie, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

chickie n.

[dimin. of chicken n. (1a)/SE chicken]

1. (orig. Aus., also chickee, chicky) a young woman.

1919		C.H. Darling Jargon Book 8: Chickie – A young girl.
1925		Eve. Post (Wellington) 5 Nov. 9/2: Shott’s Theatre; Doerothy Mackail leads the cast of ‘Chickie,’ a romance of a mdern girl.
1946		R. Rivett Behind Bamboo 395/2: Chicky, girl.
1958		H. Ellison ‘With a Knife in her Hand’ in Deadly Streets (1983) 128: The big spenders who wanted to pick up a young chickie.
1965		W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 133: I went [...] on Saturday afternoon to the matinée where we had real hot loving-up sessions with all the chickees around Goodway.
1977		(con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 138: Mayhew got himself a little number [...] llittle chickie workin’ the scivvie houses.
1983		R. Price Breaks 124: I coasted past a hot little chickie, a gymnastic-thighed sweet sixteen.
1993		I. Welsh Trainspotting 30: The Chinky chickies, Marianne, Andrea, Ali . . . which lucky ride will ah stick it intae the night?
2002		J. Franzen Corrections 287: All those pubescent chickies with their honkers exposed? Jail ’em!
2010		L. Berney Gutshot Straight [ebook] The blond chickie showed up.
2012		(con. 1980s) I. Welsh Skagboys 247: He has this chicky in his tractor beam and he’s no gaunny let go.
2017		L. McInerney Blood Miracles 130: Dan’s chickie leans across the table, wearing a black dress, smoky eyes.

2. (US) a chicken.

1956

N. Algren Walk on the Wild Side 254: ‘I like chickies,’ Feathers clucked from his cell.

In compounds

chickie run (n.) [sense 2 above/chicken n. (2a)]

1. a teenage virility ritual involving the driving of two cars at high speed towards each other, or towards a dangerous obstacle; the first one to turn aside or brake is ‘chicken’.

1956		H. Ellison ‘I’ll Bet You a Death’ in Deadly Streets (1983) 33: No dance, no chickie-run, like nothin’.
1959		H. Ellison ‘No Game for Children’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 82: You come out to the chickie-run tonight, and we’ll see you got enough guts to be a Prince.

2. as sense 1 in fig. use.

2021

J. Ellroy Widespread Panic 185: He’s testing their motivation [...] sending them out on ‘chickie runs’ [...] Jimmy calls them “panty raids”’.