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yardbird
noun- a chicken US
- Yardbird and strings. Harlem’s own vernacular for the fried chicken and spaghetti which was so common, so cheap and so utterly, unbelievably wonderful at such wrong hours–like the hours around dawn, for instance. — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 43, 1956
- a prisoner, a convict US
- For the next two weeks, K.B. was Claiborne’s yardbird. He had to go everywhere Claiborne went from morning till night. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 83, 1965
- a newly arrived military recruit US
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 50, 1945
- in trucking, a terminal employee who moves trucks around the yard US
- — Montie Tak, Truck Talk, p. 190, 1971
- on the railways, an injured employee assigned to limited duty in a railway yard US, 1968
- — American Speech, p. 290, December 1968: “Addenda to the vocabulary of railroading”
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