A person serving a sentence in a jail or prison.
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Examples for "con"
Examples for "con"
1According to him, English players have long known how to con referees.
2According to the actress, Wilson used his children to further his con.
3You're spiritual con men, confidence tricksters offering false faith and false hope.
4Mr Lowry is con testing the Tipperary North election as an Independent.
5But no way was I falling for this guy's penny-pinching con job.
1I am a convict; I have been nineteen years in the galleys.
2It held the court was correct to convict McKevitt for directing terrorism.
3The average labor value of the convict is forty-five cents a day.
4The figure was dressed in the coarse striped suit of a convict.
5The warden bowed stiffly and directed a guard to produce the convict.
1She passed away while an inmate at Moccasin Bend earlier this year.
2It said there needed to be close security scrutiny of each inmate.
3Mr Lotu-Liga said the staff member was not fighting with an inmate.
4It was not clear why the inmate would have started the fire.
5She said the inmate had been threatened repeatedly, and requested a transfer.
1They would never have me, a branded jailbird, in the Imperial Yeomanry!
2Yet, during his most recent court appearance, Nair sang a different jailbird song.
3Parents send their children to pose for family album snapshots alongside the jailbird.
4The stranger halted with his jailbird companion some five or six feet away.
5Can you imagine ole jailbird gramps telling stories at Christmas dinner?
1The yardbird bravado made him seem inauthentic, potentially dangerous.
2Charlie Yardbird has been on the go since the summer but he could run into a place.
3'Can you make me look like an aging yardbird?' Griff said.
4Stoke didn't even notice the gathering of yardbirds behind him, all come to witness this prison miracle in the making.
5The company added it will close other specialty outlets, including five YardBIRDS stores and a bath remodeling business known as HD Bath.
1I hope it hasn't been a problem for you, your father being a gaolbird.
2Many were gaolbirds, having chosen the Navy over more gaol time for debt.
3Anyhow, here we are, two gaolbirds, Bobby, disgraced forever.
4'Tis a runaway gaolbird by the look of him for whom we have no sort of use here.
1You take 'em all in, but this one is a jail bird!
2Did you ever see a jail bird dressed in a Homburg?
3Originally published as Ex- jail bird hosts 'Hot for Teacher' night
4Does he want a jail bird or does he want a hot bird? she sighs.
5But there's nothing sensible in inviting a jail bird to the house, and having him stay all night.
1Eventually, these pedestaled scales earn their namesake as chickenheads-theneck a spindly stem and the plate a rounded, squawking yard bird.
2All four cases involved women and are believed to have resulted from exposure to sick or dead back- yard birds.
Translations for yard bird