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Definition of yardbird in English: yardbirdnounˈjɑːdbəːdˈjɑrdbərd US informal 1A new military recruit, especially one assigned to menial tasks. Example sentencesExamples - A stitch in one argent yardbird's stripe, probably saves nine.
- Getting the yardbird orchestrating attacks off the street is far more important to the lives of your soldiers than a little wounded pride over a screwed up form.
- Sergeants, once chosen to sit at the right hand of God because of singular abilities to make bone-headed privates see things the Army way, shrank from shouting at psychoneurotic yardbirds because doing so might get them in deep trouble.
- The yardbirds are in the throes of rumour-induced psychosis after being gripped by speculation that our entire unit is about to be transported to a faraway place.
Synonyms novice, starter, learner, student, pupil, trainee, apprentice, probationer 2A convict. Example sentencesExamples - Jim also identified negative effects such as younger inmates being taken advantage of by older predatory yardbirds, and some ultimately becoming cheetos-metamorphoses that Jim doesn't approve of.
- The working convict is a rare exception, sometimes envied because his time is occupied, sometimes derided for his deviance from the yardbird norm.
Synonyms prisoner, convict, detainee, inmate
Origin 1940s: perhaps suggested by jailbird. Definition of yardbird in US English: yardbirdnounˈyärdbərdˈjɑrdbərd US informal 1A new military recruit, especially one assigned to menial tasks. Example sentencesExamples - A stitch in one argent yardbird's stripe, probably saves nine.
- The yardbirds are in the throes of rumour-induced psychosis after being gripped by speculation that our entire unit is about to be transported to a faraway place.
- Sergeants, once chosen to sit at the right hand of God because of singular abilities to make bone-headed privates see things the Army way, shrank from shouting at psychoneurotic yardbirds because doing so might get them in deep trouble.
- Getting the yardbird orchestrating attacks off the street is far more important to the lives of your soldiers than a little wounded pride over a screwed up form.
Synonyms novice, starter, learner, student, pupil, trainee, apprentice, probationer 2A convict. Example sentencesExamples - The working convict is a rare exception, sometimes envied because his time is occupied, sometimes derided for his deviance from the yardbird norm.
- Jim also identified negative effects such as younger inmates being taken advantage of by older predatory yardbirds, and some ultimately becoming cheetos-metamorphoses that Jim doesn't approve of.
Synonyms prisoner, convict, detainee, inmate
Origin 1940s: perhaps suggested by jailbird. |