jailbird

[jeyl-burd]

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noun

a person who is or has been confined in jail; convict or ex-convict.

Origin:
1595–1605; jail + bird

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jailbird or gaolbird (ˈdʒeɪlˌbɜːd)

—n
	a person who is or has been confined to jail, esp repeatedly; convict

gaolbird or gaolbird

—n

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"You'd have to be a jew like me to understand. You've heard of the Pale. Every one of us has something fenced up way down in us. We've been in prison for two thousand years. I have the mind of a jailbird, that's why prison can't hurt me. That's why we throw ourselves into every movement of freedom. That's why I feel the slavery of the workers, I feel it as a worker and I feel it as a jew. Oh you can't imagine the overheated stuffiness of life at home on the East Side when I was a kid. We were all jailed in poverty and Judaism and in old customs and hatreds and wornout laws."

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