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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: boyfriends
Message-ID: <326@unc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Apr-85 09:59:05 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  5 09:59:05 1985
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References: <1186@houxm.UUCP> <tekred.292>
Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill
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In article <tekred.292> ronbe@tekred.UUCP (Ron Bemis) writes:
>Come on, nitpickers, women vs. girls has been dragged out for long
>enough, don't start up on this.  (Manfriends?)

"Last summer I was hitchhiking to California, trying to find myself,
and I was picked up by these two really groovie chicks...."

The use of "chick" in this context is from 1960's slang.
Today it is obsolete.  Is their any word used today that
has the same connotation?

"Girl" is too general (you would never call a 5 year old a "chick")
and offends many.  Woman is also too general, as it includes
ANY adult female, not just those of an appropriate age
(relatively speaking).  "Fox" sounds too low-class, and
implies beauty (too specific).

So what word is most nearly equivalent to "chick"?

	Frank Silbermann