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- noun Alternative spelling of
jailbird .
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Examples
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Send him to jail now, and you make him a jail-bird for life.
Sole Music 2010
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That he did jail-time, therfore is a jail-bird, therefore is qualified to be Pretzeldent?
Letting Sarah Palin Answer Questions Is Very, Very Dangerous 2009
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Post jail-bird Michelle Rodriguez has landed her first part since leaving prison.
Michelle Rodriguez is back for THE FAST & THE FURIOUS 4 | Obsessed With Film 2008
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Her sister, who's gone high-hat, as they said in those days, has ditched her jail-bird boyfriend for a homely guy with a good heart.
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“No ill?” answered the old woman — “and he to marry this jail-bird, if ever she gets her foot loose!”
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This jail-bird having been got out of Newgate by a MRS. CELLIER, a
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Cowperwood — an upstart, a jail-bird, a stranger whom they had done their best to suppress financially and ostracize socially, had now become an attractive, even a sparkling figure in the eyes of the Chicago public.
The Titan 2004
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She often stops me in the walk, and, pointing to the captain, says, ‘My husband, though he is become a blackguard jail-bird, must be allowed to be a handsome fellow still.’ —
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A jail-bird can easily be distinguished after the first six months, by his superior bodily condition.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various
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It did occur to Mat that he might inquire who that young jail-bird might be.
Forty-one Thieves A Tale of California Angelo Hall
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