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Definition of gallows-bird in English: gallows-birdnoun archaic A person who deserves to be hanged. Example sentencesExamples - I am a good judge of faces, and I can see that you are a true gallows-bird.
- The gallows-bird was still corporal of our troop.
- This dastardly fellow, this gallows-bird of a conspirator is your own dear Cornelius, is he?
- His former secretary was a rascal, but he paid the price - that gallows-bird.
- And you would be a highwayman, would you, gallows-bird?
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