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• prison bird — n. convict, prisoner, person convicted of a crime who is serving time in prison …   English contemporary dictionary

• prison bird — noun : jailbird …   Useful english dictionary

• Prison Break (season 3) — Prison Break season 3 Prison Break season three DVD cover Country of origin United States …   Wikipedia

• Bird-Man — is the name of two fictional characters in the Marvel Universe. Both have similar powers and appearance, and both appeared primarily as a member of the villain team the Ani Men.Henry HawkSuperherobox| caption= comic color=background:#ff8080… …   Wikipedia

• bird — W2S2 [bə:d US bə:rd] n [: Old English; Origin: bridd] 1.) a creature with wings and feathers that can usually fly. Many birds sing and build nests, and female birds lay eggs. ▪ wild birds ▪ The dawn was filled with the sound of birds. ▪ a flock… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• bird — n. 1 a feathered vertebrate with a beak, with two wings and two feet, egg laying and usu. able to fly. 2 a game bird. 3 Brit. sl. a young woman. 4 colloq. a person (a wily old bird). 5 sl. a a prison. b rhymingsl. a prison sentence (short for… …   Useful english dictionary

• bird — I. /bɜd / (say berd) noun 1. any of the Aves, a class of warm blooded vertebrates having a body more or less completely covered with feathers, and the forelimbs so modified as to form wings by means of which most species fly. 2. Sport a. a game… …  

• bird —  1. Young woman. Girl friend.  2. Person. Thus a funny, queer bird, etc. A strange person.  3. do bird Serve a prison sentence, bird lime Time spent in prison.  4. get (give) the bird Receive (express) the dissatisfaction of an unappreciative… …   A concise dictionary of English slang

• bird — [[t]bɜ͟ː(r)d[/t]] ♦♦ birds 1) N COUNT A bird is a creature with feathers and wings. Female birds lay eggs. Most birds can fly. 2) N COUNT Some men refer to young women as birds. This use could cause offence. [BRIT, INFORMAL] 3) → See also game… …   English dictionary

• bird — noun (C) 1 BIRD a creature with wings and feathers that lays eggs and can usually fly: The tree was full of tiny, brightly coloured birds. 2 a little bird told me spoken used to say that you know something, but you will not say how you found out …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• bird — [OE] Bird is something of a mystery word. It was not the ordinary Old English word for ‘feathered flying animal’; that was fowl. In Old English, bird meant specifically ‘young bird, nestling’. It did not begin to replace fowl as the general term… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins