| 释义 |
bird lime; bird
noun- a sentence of imprisonment UK, 1857
Rhyming slang for TIME- I’ve never actually worked out the exact total of bird I’ve done in my time. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 111, 1956
- The reason for this was so that they could diside [decide] where they were going to send me to do my bird. — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 28, 1958
- Never done bird, our Marchmare, but sus [suspicion] clings to him like an aura. — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 23, 1962
- [T]he landlord of the rub-a-dub called bird lime. — Ronnie Barker, Fletcher’s Book of Rhyming Slang, p. 26, 1979
- — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, p. 25, 1992
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 27, 1996
- I could earn almost as much doing something which would get me much less bird. — Dave Courtney, Raving Lunacy, p. 247, 2000
- by extension from sense 1, a personal history of imprisonment UK, 1857
Rhyming slang for TIME
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