yard bird

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yard⋅bird

[yahrd-burd]

–noun Slang.

1.	a convict or prisoner.

2.	an army recruit.

3.	a soldier confined to camp and assigned to cleaning the grounds or other menial tasks as punishment for violation of the rules.

Origin:
1940–45, Americanism; yard ² + bird, by analogy with jailbird

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yard bird
n. Slang

1. An untrained military recruit.
2. A soldier confined to a restricted area or assigned menial tasks as a punishment.
A convict; a prisoner.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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yardbird

n.
a convict. : Who's the yardbird with the headphones on his noodle?

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