Jailbird

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  • noun. A prisoner or an ex-convict.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who has been or is confined in jail; a malefactor.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • A prisoner; one is in prison or who has been confined in prison.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A prisoner or an ex-prisoner
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a criminal who has been jailed repeatedly
  • noun. a criminal who has been jailed repeatedly
  • Word Usage
    "To make the idea of jailbird-as-thespian even worse, I can tell you as someone who lives here that there is no possible way this does not turn into a media circus."
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    jail bird  
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