[noun] slang term for a girl or woman, often considered offensive.
Ex: “Can you believe he called me a ‘chick’ because he couldn’t remember my name?” Betty asked her friends.
Take a look around you—words are everywhere! On TV and the radio, in magazines and newspapers, online, at school, in the mall, even at sporting events. Many people are trying to give us information, and they’re using words to do it. Of course, that seems fairly obvious; how else would someone try to tell you something, right? But have you ever stopped to think about why people choose certain words? Have you ever wondered why they might have picked those specific words to communicate their messages?
Consider, for example, the multip...