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What (who) is JAILBIRD - definition
jailbird
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Jailbirds; Jailbird (disambiguation)
(jailbirds)
If you refer to someone as a jailbird, you mean that they are in prison, or have been in prison. (INFORMAL, OLD-FASHIONED)
= convict
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jailbird
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Jailbirds; Jailbird (disambiguation)
¦ noun informal a person who is or has repeatedly been in prison.
Jailbird (novel)
1979 NOVEL BY KURT VONNEGUT
Jailbird is a novel by Kurt Vonnegut, published in 1979. The book is regarded as Kurt Vonnegut's "Watergate novel.
Examples of use of JAILBIRD
1. SAVANNAH, Ga. –– Sometimes, it‘s better to look like a jailbird than sport a birthday suit.
2. Having transformed the stereotype of the jailbird sewing sacks, they are now going it alone.
3. But the ex–jailbird wasn‘t the only celebrity out on the Halloween prowl.
4. Barker once said, however, that Porridge, the story of jailbird Norman Stanley Fletcher and his battles with the penal system, was the best thing he had ever done.
5. Hutomo Mandala Putra, 44, known as Tommy Suharto, a multimillionaire businessman with a reputation as a playboy, was not your average jailbird.