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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An untrained military recruit.
- n. A soldier confined to a restricted area or assigned menial tasks as a punishment.
- n. Slang A convict; a prisoner.
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative form of yardbird.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
- n. a military recruit who is assigned menial tasks
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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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