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