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jailbird

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noun

jailbird

/ ˈdʒeɪlˌbɜːd /

First recorded in 1595–1605; jail + bird

Joran van der Sloot is the latest jailbird to get romantic attention from women.

There may have been some old jailbird called a King in the time of our grandmothers; but he belongs to history if not to fable.

Second, and a heap more important, because the jailbird had threatened Miss Beulah.

It is not mysterious, it is not even odd, that a jailbird should take his gun to Pilgrim's Pond.

He had forgotten all about it in the excitement of being a jailbird, and I went and reminded him.

The old man--hes the one we saw with those two suspicious jailbird-looking fellows down the line yesterday.

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