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jail bird

jail bird is the alternative form 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 form of?
Jail bird is the alternative form of jailbird.

Words near jail bird in the dictionary

  1. jaikie
  2. jaikies
  3. jail
  4. jail bait
  5. jail bars
  6. jail bird
  7. jail birds
  8. jail break
  9. jail breaks
  10. jail cell
  11. jail cells

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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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