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noun

a person who rises at an early hour.

a person who arrives before others, as for the purpose of gaining some advantage: The early birds got the best seats for the play.

(initial capital letters) Aerospace. the first of the Intelsat series of communications satellites, orbited (1965) by Intelsat.

Origin:
1885–90

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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early bird

—n
	informal a person who rises early or arrives in good time

Early Bird

—n
	See also Intelsat one of a number of communications satellites, the first of which was launched in 1965 into a stationary orbit and provided telephone channels between Europe and the US

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early bird definition

n.
a person who gets up early. : The early birds saw the corpse on the street and called the cops.
n.
a person who arrives early. : There were some early birds who arrived before the tea things were laid.
mod.
having to do with early arrival. : Early bird arrivals will be given a free cup of coffee.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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