n. - two-legged feathered winged vertebrate, egg-laying and usu. Able to fly.

- slang young woman.

- slang person.

- slang prison; prison sentence. a bird in the hand something secured or certain. The birds and the bees euphem. Sexual activity and reproduction. Birds of a feather similar people. For the birds colloq. Trivial, uninteresting. Get the bird slang be rejected, esp. By an audience. [old english]

- of paradise n. Bird, the male of which has brilliant plumage.

- of passage n. - migrant.

- habitual traveller.

- of prey n. Bird which hunts animals for food.

- table n. Platform on which food for birds is placed.