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Meanings of jailbird in anglès

A criminal who has been jailed repeatedly.

      Sinònims
      Examples for "con"
      Examples for "con"
      1
      According to him, English players have long known how to con referees.
      The Guardian
      2
      According to the actress, Wilson used his children to further his con.
      Ebony
      3
      You're spiritual con men, confidence tricksters offering false faith and false hope.
      Just another judgement day
      4
      Mr Lowry is con testing the Tipperary North election as an Independent.
      The Irish Times
      5
      But no way was I falling for this guy's penny-pinching con job.
      Sister Mine
      1
      I am a convict; I have been nineteen years in the galleys.
      The Ontario High School Reader
      2
      It held the court was correct to convict McKevitt for directing terrorism.
      The Irish Times
      3
      The average labor value of the convict is forty-five cents a day.
      The Twin Hells / A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Kansas and...
      4
      The figure was dressed in the coarse striped suit of a convict.
      A Texas Ranger
      5
      The warden bowed stiffly and directed a guard to produce the convict.
      The Ape, the Idiot & Other People
      1
      She passed away while an inmate at Moccasin Bend earlier this year.
      Don't cry
      2
      It said there needed to be close security scrutiny of each inmate.
      Reuters
      3
      Mr Lotu-Liga said the staff member was not fighting with an inmate.
      Radio NZ
      4
      It was not clear why the inmate would have started the fire.
      Reuters
      5
      She said the inmate had been threatened repeatedly, and requested a transfer.
      The Irish Times
      1
      The yardbird bravado made him seem inauthentic, potentially dangerous.
      A dark matter
      2
      Charlie Yardbird has been on the go since the summer but he could run into a place.
      The Irish Times
      3
      'Can you make me look like an aging yardbird?' Griff said.
      Quantico
      4
      Stoke didn't even notice the gathering of yardbirds behind him, all come to witness this prison miracle in the making.
      Warlord: an alex hawke novel
      5
      The company added it will close other specialty outlets, including five YardBIRDS stores and a bath remodeling business known as HD Bath.
      Reuters
      1
      I hope it hasn't been a problem for you, your father being a gaolbird.
      The girl with the dragon tattoo
      2
      Many were gaolbirds, having chosen the Navy over more gaol time for debt.
      Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III
      3
      Anyhow, here we are, two gaolbirds, Bobby, disgraced forever.
      Fanny's First Play
      4
      'Tis a runaway gaolbird by the look of him for whom we have no sort of use here.
      The Fool Errant / Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley,...
      1
      You take 'em all in, but this one is a jail bird!
      Lo, Michael!
      2
      Did you ever see a jail bird dressed in a Homburg?
      The new yorker
      3
      Originally published as Ex- jail bird hosts 'Hot for Teacher' night
      News.com.au
      4
      Does he want a jail bird or does he want a hot bird? she sighs.
      News.com.au
      5
      But there's nothing sensible in inviting a jail bird to the house, and having him stay all night.
      Two Boys and a Fortune; Or, The Tyler Will
      1
      Eventually, these pedestaled scales earn their namesake as chickenheads-theneck a spindly stem and the plate a rounded, squawking yard bird.
      Climbing Magazine
      2
      All four cases involved women and are believed to have resulted from exposure to sick or dead back- yard birds.
      Reuters
      Usage of jailbird in anglès
      1
      They would never have me, a branded jailbird, in the Imperial Yeomanry!
      Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman
      2
      Yet, during his most recent court appearance, Nair sang a different jailbird song.
      The South African
      3
      Parents send their children to pose for family album snapshots alongside the jailbird.
      Reuters
      4
      The stranger halted with his jailbird companion some five or six feet away.
      The High School Pitcher; or, Dick & Co. on the Gridley Diamond
      5
      Can you imagine ole jailbird gramps telling stories at Christmas dinner?
      The cold room
      6
      I shouldn't be at all surprised if he were a jailbird.
      Struggling Upward, or Luke Larkin's Luck
      7
      But he also sensed she didn't exactly feel the love for her jailbird brother-in-law.
      Gutshot straight
      8
      After that, who would believe the word of a jailbird?
      Haunted: a novel of stories
      9
      He might have been a jailbird gaping through iron bars.
      We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
      10
      Our claim is established by law, and he is nothing but an escaped jailbird.
      The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes; Or, The Secret of the Island ...
      11
      He felt kind of embarrassed, dressed like a jailbird, filthy from the day's work.
      Table for five
      12
      Charlie Manson-lookalike, ecowarrior and jailbird Marcus is back, and he's coming to get ex-lover Eleanor.
      The Irish Times
      13
      Before a robed magistrate, Douglas and Tony stood in the dock, wearing grimy jailbird dungarees.
      Acts of faith
      14
      How our jailbird sergeant got to be a hero?
      Aspho Fields
      15
      Your little jailbird boyfriend has done this to you.
      From dawn to deceit
      16
      That man this evening, when he called me 'jailbird'-
      Sheila of Big Wreck Cove: A Story of Cape Cod
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      Jailbird through the time