jail-bird
IPA: dʒˈeɪɫbˈɝd
noun
- Alternative spelling of jailbird [A prisoner or an ex-prisoner]
jailbird
IPA: dʒˈeɪɫbɝd
noun
- A prisoner or an ex-prisoner
jail bird
IPA: dʒˈeɪɫbɝd
noun
- Alternative form of jailbird [A prisoner or an ex-prisoner]
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Examples of "jail-bird" in Sentences
- Send him to jail now, and you make him a jail-bird for life.
- This jail-bird having been got out of Newgate by a MRS. CELLIER, a
- It did occur to Mat that he might inquire who that young jail-bird might be.
- Post jail-bird Michelle Rodriguez has landed her first part since leaving prison.
- That he did jail-time, therfore is a jail-bird, therefore is qualified to be Pretzeldent?
- “No ill?” answered the old woman — “and he to marry this jail-bird, if ever she gets her foot loose!”
- A jail-bird can easily be distinguished after the first six months, by his superior bodily condition.
- Her sister, who's gone high-hat, as they said in those days, has ditched her jail-bird boyfriend for a homely guy with a good heart.
- She often stops me in the walk, and, pointing to the captain, says, ‘My husband, though he is become a blackguard jail-bird, must be allowed to be a handsome fellow still.’ —
- Cowperwood — an upstart, a jail-bird, a stranger whom they had done their best to suppress financially and ostracize socially, had now become an attractive, even a sparkling figure in the eyes of the Chicago public.
Examples of "jailbird" in Sentences
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