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bird
/ˈbɝd/
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What does bird mean?
noun
- An animal of the clade (traditionally class) Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs.
- (slang) A man, fellow.
- A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
More meanings (20)
noun
- A girlfriend.
- (slang) An aircraft.
- (slang) A satellite.
- Booing and jeering, especially as done by an audience expressing displeasure at a performer.
- The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.
- A yardbird.
- (slang) A kilogram of cocaine.
- (slang) A penis.
- (informal) Snowbird (retiree who moves to a warmer climate).
- (slang) A prison sentence.
- (obsolete) Any winged animal.
- (obsolete) A young bird, a nestling.
verb
- To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.
- To catch or shoot birds; to hunt birds.
- (figuratively) To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
- To transmit via satellite.
- (slang) To bring into prison, to roof.
adjective
- Able to be passed with very little work; having the nature of a bird course.
proper noun
- A surname.
- Nickname of Charlie Parker (1920–1955), jazz saxophonist.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈbɝd/
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Tess, between the Amazons and the farmer, like a bird caught in a clap-net, returned no answer, continuing to pull the straw.
The Bird Woman laughed alone, for to them the situation had been too serious to develop any of the elements of fun.
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“Here he is,” chuckled the old man, and then he spoke to the bird as if he were speaking to a child.
All the hairdressers’ shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys.
A carved bird or beast at a corner seemed like some vast walking or flying dragon wasting the pastures and villages below.