jailbird

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The pangram from yesterday’s Spelling Bee was jailbird.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2023

This subtle, amiable jailbird on temporary leave to the funny farm is saner than the men around him but he’s not necessarily brighter.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2023

Tony Sirico, a one-time jailbird who achieved fame as mobster Paulie “Walnuts” Gualtieri in “The Sopranos,” died Friday, his brother the Rev. Robert Sirico said on Facebook.

From Washington Times • Jul. 9, 2022

As he explains in his memoir, Ronnie was “a conman, fantasist, occasional jailbird, and my father. . . . Ronnie’s life was spent walking on the thinnest, slipperiest ice you can imagine.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2020

By far the major portion of the book was devoted to spinsterish discourses on prison life—bad food, hijinks in the exercise yard, tedious little jailbird hobbies.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt