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gallows birds

gallows birds is the plural of gallows bird.

Meaning of gallows bird

Noun

gallows bird (plural gallows birds)

  1. (archaic) A person who deserves, or is likely, to be hanged.
    • Everybody along Long Wharf knows you called him a gallows bird. He's not used to it.1943, Esther Hoskins Forbes, Johnny Tremain

Questions about gallows birds

What is gallows birds the plural of?
Gallows birds is the plural of gallows bird.

Words near gallows birds in the dictionary

  1. gallowglasses
  2. Gallowhill
  3. gallowing
  4. gallows
  5. gallows bird
  6. gallows birds
  7. gallows frame
  8. gallows frames
  9. gallows god
  10. gallows gods
  11. gallows humor

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