yard bird
Slang for prisoner
A yard bird is a chicken or other domestic fowl kept in a yard.
In military and prison slang, a yard bird is someone confined to a yard for punishment or menial labor—a prisoner or soldier doing grunt work.
Jazz musician Charlie Parker earned the nickname "Yardbird" (shortened to "Bird"), which influenced the term's association with bebop culture.
- liferPrisoner without release
- hard timeStruggle or imprisonment
- recruitNew member sought
- prisonerConfined criminal detainee
- inmateConfined facility resident
yardbird · Charlie Parker · jazz legend · alto sax · bebop · fowl · poultry · rooster · saxophone · Dizzy Gillespie · trusty · blues · captive · Kansas City · improvisation · jazz · convict · chicken
- prison slangshank, shiv, cellie, commissary, lockdown
- birding slanglifer, tick, twitch, twitcher, dip
- railroad slanghogger, highball, gandy dancer, boomer, crummy
- urban wildlifepigeon, house mouse, brown rat, house sparrow, rat
- stray animalsstray cat, stray dog, stray kitten, feral cat, feral kitten
- pet memesdoggo, pupper, catto, floof, boop
domestication and habitat
yard birdwild bird
game bird · migratory bird · songbird · raptor · bird of prey
yard, bird, yards, yarding, yarded, birds, birding, birded, birder