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canary
noun- a female singer UK, 1886
- — Arnold Shaw, Lingo of Tin-Pan Alley, p. 9, 1950
- But Jan Du Mond, a five-foot-three night club canary, pianist and composer, drives a cab by day. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 83, 1951
- [A] socially connected, prominently married carpet muncher with a yen for nightclub canaries was prime meat for the four-star Herald. — James Ellroy, Hollywood Nocturnes, p. 270, 1994
- At a time when it was hip to be cool and well-tailored, and female singers were still referred to as “songbirds” and “canaries,” the Playboy Club became the most popular nighclub in town. — Kathryn Leigh Scott, The Bunny Years, p. 58, 1998
- a police informer US, 1929
Canaries sing, as do informers. - Jails are no sanctuaries for canaries. — Burton Turkus and Sid Feder, Murder, Inc., p. 163, 1951
- “You know,” Varga says very slowly, “a show-off is only a few steps away from being a canary.” — Charles Perry, Portrait of a Young Man Drowning, p. 167, 1962
- Scott was carrying on like the MC in a lounge act, like here he is, the one and only made-guy canary in captivity. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 130, 1975
- [Y]a sang to the fuckin’ rozzers. Didn’t ya? Sang like a fuckin’ canary ya cuntprick. — Nick Barlay, Curvy Lovebox, p. 19, 1997
- a person who is perceived to bring bad luck US
- [A]nybody who is a carrier of such disasters is known in Las Vegas as a “canary.” The word canary is dervied from the Yiddish word, kinnahora, which means evil eye. — Edward Lin, Big Julie of Vegas, p. 255, 1974
- a capsule of pentobarbital sodium (trade name Nembutal), a central nervous system depressant US
- — David W. Maurer and Victor Vogel, Narcotics and Narcotic Addiction, p. 394, 1973
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