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superkid en · NOUN

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Etymology

From super- + kid.

Meanings

1. (colloquial) A child of remarkable talents or abilities.
   • Elkind appealed to parents prone to live for and through their child's accomplishments to give up their vain desire for a superkid, refrain from exaggerating the child's competence, and stop rushing and pushing the child into adulthood. 2004, Laura E. Berk, Awakening Children's Minds:
   • WHEN Kali Grosvenor was nine years old, back in 1970, she achieved a level of celebrity as a superkid. Her first book, Poems by Kali, had been published by a major firm (Doubleday) and was selling at the rate of 1,000 copies a week […] 1974, Ebony, volume 29, number 10, page 96:

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