bird

bird
[[t]bɜ͟ː(r)d[/t]]
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birds
1) N-COUNT A bird is a creature with feathers and wings. Female birds lay eggs. Most birds can fly.
2) N-COUNT Some men refer to young women as birds. This use could cause offence. [BRIT, INFORMAL]
3) → See also game bird
4) PHRASE Some people refer to the birds and the bees when they are talking about sex, especially to children. [HUMOROUS]
Syn:
the facts of life
5) PHRASE: V inflects Someone who is doing bird is in prison. [BRIT, INFORMAL]

They warned him that next time he'd find himself doing bird.

Syn:
do time
6) PHRASE: N inflects, oft v-link PHR If someone is an early bird, they usually get up early in the morning.
→ See also early bird

We've always been early birds, up at 5.30 or 6am.

Syn:
early riser
7) PHRASE: v-link PHR If you refer to two people as birds of a feather, you mean that they have the same interests or are very similar.
8) PHRASE: V inflects If an audience gives someone the bird, they shout loudly in order to show their disappointment or disapproval.
9) PHRASE: V inflects If you get the bird or if someone gives you the bird, they make a rude gesture with their middle finger at you. [AM]
10) PHRASE A bird in the hand is something that you already have and do not want to risk losing by trying to get something else.
11) PHRASE If you say that a little bird told you about something, you mean that someone has told you about it, but you do not want to say who it was.
12) PHRASE: adj PHR Some people use the phrase old bird to refer to someone and say what they are like. [OLD-FASHIONED]

As usual, Wheeler, a wise old bird, got it right...

She was such a decent old bird.

13) PHRASE: N inflects, usu v-link PHR If you say that someone or something is a rare bird, you mean that they are very unusual.
14) PHRASE: V inflects If you say that doing something will kill two birds with one stone, you mean that it will enable you to achieve two things that you want to achieve, rather than just one.

English dictionary. 2008.

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