A criminal who has been jailed repeatedly.
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.
6 Yerkes, too, is a jail bird .
7 She had impressed this car with a suspected number and paid for it by being made into a jail bird .
8 The sun and air are bringing a fine color to your face until you don't even remotely suggest a doleful jail bird .
9 Here is William Comstock, United States Deputy Marshal, carrying a message from no less a person than Jimmie Clayton, jail bird , crook and murderer!
10 They were convicts; when their terms were up, they would be jail birds .
11 Jail birds , both on y', I bet.
12 In the first place, he would recommend that all Jail Birds be immediately transported to the Canary Islands.
13 "That would give me away and scare off these jail birds mighty quick!"
14 "We ain't workin' with no jail bird , " announced the spokesman.
15 "Ain't they looking for a desperate escaped jail bird ? "
16 I don't want no thieves nor jail birds in my house, and the sooner you pay your bill and leave, the better I'll like it.
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