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do bird

do bird verb: to do time (to serve a prison sentence).

Verb

do bird (third-person singular simple present does bird, present participle doing bird, simple past did bird, past participle done bird)

  1. (UK, dated, informal) to do time (to serve a prison sentence).

Forms of do bird

third-person singular presentdoes bird
present participledoing bird
pastdid bird
past participledone bird
alternative formdo one's bird

Origin of do bird

Originally Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from bird-lime for "time".

Questions about do bird

What does do bird mean?
Do bird means to do time (to serve a prison sentence).
What part of speech is do bird?
Do bird is a verb.
What is the past tense of do bird?
The past tense of do bird is did bird.

Words near do bird in the dictionary

  1. do as I say and not as I do
  2. do as I say, not as I do
  3. do away with
  4. do battle
  5. do bears shit in the woods
  6. do bird
  7. do bits
  8. do business
  9. do by
  10. do by half-measures
  11. do by halves

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