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chick lit
[ lit ]
noun
- literature that appeals especially to women, usually having a romantic or sentimental theme.
chick lit
noun
- a genre of fiction concentrating on young working women and their emotional lives
- ( as modifier )
chick-lit romances
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Word History and Origins
Origin of chick lit1
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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.
Girls of Riyadh, for instance, was a bestselling chick-lit in the Middle East about four girls in Saudi Arabia searching for love.
But as a genre, Dude Lit has as many reliable attributes as Chick Lit, with some rather stark differences.
In Chick Lit, women try to keep themselves to a trim 224 pages or so.
In Chick Lit, women lust after exactly the kind of sensitive, moody men Dude Lit authors write about.
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