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jail-bird

[jeyl-burd]

jail·bird

[jeyl-burd]
noun
a person who is or has been confined in jail; convict or ex-convict.

Origin:
1595–1605; jail + bird
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Jail-bird is always a great word to know.
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an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
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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