chick lit

[ lit ]

noun

1. literature that appeals especially to women, usually having a romantic or sentimental theme.

chick lit

noun

1. 1. a genre of fiction concentrating on young working women and their emotional lives
   2. ( as modifier )

      chick-lit romances

Word History and Origins

Origin of chick lit¹

chick (in the sense of “woman”) + lit ³

Example Sentences

“Given that my book was about a wedding, it was going to be a struggle to distance it from the chick lit category,” she said.

From The Daily Beast

Girls of Riyadh, for instance, was a bestselling chick-lit in the Middle East about four girls in Saudi Arabia searching for love.

From The Daily Beast

But as a genre, Dude Lit has as many reliable attributes as Chick Lit, with some rather stark differences.

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In Chick Lit, women try to keep themselves to a trim 224 pages or so.

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In Chick Lit, women lust after exactly the kind of sensitive, moody men Dude Lit authors write about.

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