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jail-bird

jail-bird is the alternative spelling of jailbird.

Meaning of jailbird

Noun

jailbird (plural jailbirds)

  1. A prisoner or an ex-prisoner.
    Synonyms:
    yardbird

Forms of jail-bird

pluraljail-birds

Questions about jail-bird

What is jail-bird the alternative spelling of?
Jail-bird is the alternative spelling of jailbird.

Words near jail-bird in the dictionary

  1. jail purses
  2. jail school
  3. jail sentence
  4. jail sentences
  5. jail-bait
  6. jail-bird
  7. jail-birds
  8. jail-fever
  9. jailable
  10. Jailam
  11. jailbait

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jail-bird (page history and authors); jailbird (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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