Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A horseracing enthusiast, especially one who watches races at the outer rail of the track.
Wiktionary
- n. A rail or similar bird
- n. US, slang A gambler; originally specifically a horseracing enthusiast
WordNet 3.0
- n. a fan of racing who watches races from the outer rail of the track
Etymologies
- rail + bird (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The sport is highly telegenic, and has great cyber-possibilities: it's full of railbird chatter, and handicappers analyze more downloadable data than fantasy-baseball practitioners do.”
“Pearce's antics have been so offensive, a railbird told our reporter yesterday, that House Republican Leaders are having difficulty filling out the Appropriations Committee roster--expected to be between 15 and 18 members--because a number of members are unwilling to sit on a committee he chairs.”
“The morning of May 12, the first day of the championship, Stuey was little more than a railbird a derogatory term used to describe the brokesters who watch the action from behind the barriers surrounding the tables.”
“Mansfield was a known railbird, and he'd be glued to the finish line before the first race went off.”
“Some railbird satirist near the wire bawled "Go!" as the unspeakable riot swept past in dust-clouds.”
The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul
“In the course of a mini-monologue, Zito can sound like a railbird who was one unlucky break from cashing a big ticket.”
“Numbers don't really convey it, especially if you're not much of a railbird.”
“Morgan Mundane was the street-wise bookie and eternal railbird, all of them springing full-form from the sly mind and mouth of Steve Cannon each weekday afternoon.”
“Barney Underwood is not an ordinary railbird-he's a tell catcher.”
“You no longer have to visit Las Vegas to railbird the high stakes action; all you have to do now is fire up Full Tilt Poker to watch the likes of Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen, and Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies battle it out for six-figure pots.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘railbird’.
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Animal bipes implume
Specific use of the word bird to describe those featherless bipeds with the broad nails. (From Plato's description of man. See chicken.)
bird, gallows bird, yard bird, jailbird, bird colonel, bird of passage, birdbrain, birdman, firebird, lovebird, Birdman of Alcatraz, railbird and 8 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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Brochettes of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for words or phrases that haven't yet found a place in one or more of my other lists.
nonexclusivity, adaptationist, paxillin, adduct, unblushingly cribbed, ptomaïne, microsievert, millisievert, too big to jail, tastemaker, tinsmithing, Nimzo-Indian and 1616 more...
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Words of the Day
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SS Profess
pretend, pedantry, syllogism, palaver, flummox, anamorphosis, mishpocha, juggins, panjandrum, desultor, antichthon, antediluvian and 6 more...
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