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Jailbird

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Informal A prisoner or an ex-convict.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A prisoner or an ex-prisoner

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

A prisoner; one is in prison or who has been confined in prison.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. One who has been or is confined in jail; a malefactor.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a criminal who has been jailed repeatedly

Word Usage

"Chester, now about thirty years old, had been pardoned because of late evidence in his favour, when a five - year term for burglary was but one quarter served, but in his old father's eyes a jailbird was a jailbird, and Chester was still in some mysterious way to blame."

Equivalent

jail bird

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

crook criminal felon malefactor outlaw

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

prisoner

Same Context

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