Associations to the word «Yardbird»

Wiktionary

YARDBIRD, noun. (chiefly US) (slang) A chicken.
YARDBIRD, noun. (chiefly US) (slang) A person who is imprisoned.
YARDBIRD, noun. (chiefly US) (slang) A soldier who is required to perform menial work on the grounds of a military base.

Dictionary definition

YARDBIRD, noun. A military recruit who is assigned menial tasks.
YARDBIRD, noun. A person serving a sentence in a jail or prison.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats