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View definitions for jailbird

jailbird

noun as in convict

noun as in culprit

noun as in felon

noun as in inmate

Strongest matches

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noun as in offender

noun as in prisoner

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Example Sentences

Joran van der Sloot is the latest jailbird to get romantic attention from women.

There may have been some old jailbird called a King in the time of our grandmothers; but he belongs to history if not to fable.

Second, and a heap more important, because the jailbird had threatened Miss Beulah.

It is not mysterious, it is not even odd, that a jailbird should take his gun to Pilgrim's Pond.

He had forgotten all about it in the excitement of being a jailbird, and I went and reminded him.

The old man--hes the one we saw with those two suspicious jailbird-looking fellows down the line yesterday.

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On this page you'll find 276 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to jailbird, such as: captive, felon, prisoner, con, culprit, and loser.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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