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jailbird; gaol-bird noun a prisoner or ex-convict UK, 1661- [T]hey made me lay around there for six weeks, doing the kind of easy bit a jailbird always dreams about. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 310, 1946
- Jail birds, cons, and other unfortunate victims of bad laws call this ingenious invention a Fifi Bag. — Screw, p. 23, 27 October 1969
- I’ll pop another tiny bottle of champers on the ice for our delicious jailbird. — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971
- Since those jailbirds took little Nathan I been doin’ some thinking, and I ain’t too proud of myself. — Raising Arizona, 1987
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 66, 1996
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