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What (who) is yardbird - definition

WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Yardbird (disambiguation)

yardbird         
¦ noun US informal
1. a new military recruit, especially one assigned to menial tasks.
2. a convict.
Origin
1940s: perh. suggested by jailbird.
Nike-Yardbird         
AMERICAN SOUNDING ROCKET
Nike Yardbird was an American sounding rocket with two stages, based upon the Nike Hercules M5E1 booster and a Thiokol TE-289 Yardbird upper stage.http://www.
Yardbird Suite         
JAZZ TUNE COMPOSED AND RECORDED BY CHARLIE PARKER
"Yardbird Suite" is a bebop standard composed by jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker in 1946. The title combines Parker's nickname "Yardbird" (often shortened to "Bird") and a colloquial use of the classical music term "suite" (in a manner similar to such jazz titles as Lester Young's "Midnight Symphony" and Duke Ellington's "Ebony Rhapsody").

Wikipedia

Yardbird

Yardbird may refer to:

  • Charlie Parker, American saxophonist
  • George Yardley, American basketball player
  • A colloquialism for the domestic chicken in the American Deep South
  • A slang term for a jailbird
  • A slang term for a basic trainee in the armed forces
  • Railyard, sections of parallel train tracks, where many rail cars are
  • Yardbird Reader, journal edited by Ishmael Reed from 1972 to 1976)
Examples of use of yardbird
1. "People talk about the Star Spangled Banner and burning his guitar – but Jimi also loved poetry; there is a lot of beauty in there too." For Songs of Experience, Patti Smith presents the man she calls "the Crown Prince of our Meltdown, Jeff Beck" – the ex–Yardbird who has remained true to the essence of his art.