n. Eye dialect spelling of bird, representing mid-20th-century New York City English.
n. A computer simulation of an animal that flies in flocks or swarms.
n. Any member of the family Boidae of non-venomous snakes.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A snake of the family Boidæ; a boa or anaconda.
Word Usage
"She's a bird, "he repeated, fondly reminiscent over his high-ball --" and I myself am the real ornithological thing -- the species that Brooklyn itself would label 'boid' ..."