Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. female, of a woman.

1956		New Musical Express 20 July n.p.: Check from the chick-pic on the next page [KH].
1969		Oz 20 29/1: We have a chick society to help girls.
1983		K. Hudson Dict. of Teenage Revolution 39: Chick-pic. A photograph of a girl, a pin-up.
2000		M. Manning Get Your Cock Out 35: Gorebladder, the chick drummer from the female metal band The Fuckpigs, drowning on her own blood.
2016		‘Chelsea G. Summers’ in Vice 11 Jan. 🌐 The sexbots you know and love are almost exclusively female bots servicing human men. [...] they’re Ava and Kyoko of Ex Machina and Pris of Blade Runner. Chick sexbots populate television, too.
2024		D. Swierczynski California Bear 149: ‘I’m impressed by that chick director you have on board’.

2. of interest to girls or women, e.g. chick movie, chick lit.

1993		M. Myers et al. Wayne’s World II [film script] Garth pulls out three, ‘The Red Shoes’. garth: Classic chick movie.
1999		Guardian Guide 22–28 May 59: The most brutal chick-flick ever made.
2001		G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 102: Chick music, like all the rock and soul with female vocals she had been playing that night.
2010		K. Richards Life 151: We were listening to chick songs, doowop, uptown soul.