Definition of "jailbird" []

• Informal A prisoner or an ex-convict. (noun)

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• "To make the idea of jailbird-as-thespian even worse, I can tell you as someone who lives here that there is no possible way this does not turn into a media circus."
• "Chester, now about thirty years old, had been pardoned because of late evidence in his favour, when a five - year term for burglary was but one quarter served, but in his old father's eyes a jailbird was a jailbird, and Chester was still in some mysterious way to blame."
• "Judge Carrie Ann Inaba tells E! that the jailbird is her first choice for the next season."