bird

Adjective

1. Able to be passed with very little work; having the nature of a bird course.
   • SOC100 isn’t bird at all lol. But ANT101 is super easy & the prof (Dr. Sherry Fukuzawa) is amazing. - 2020 October 16, illegalsalt, “Thoughts on these bird courses”, in Reddit, r/UTM:
   • but admittedly, all the hours spent creating excel sheets optimizing my course plan, all the research finding the absolutely best professors, all the smart friends i made, all the alumni i contacted to collect...

Noun Entry 2

1. An animal of the clade (traditionally class) Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs.
   • Ducks and sparrows are birds.
   • The level below this is called the Phylum; birds belong to the Phylum Chordata, which includes all the vertebrate animals (the sub-phylum Vertebrata) and a few odds and ends. - 2004, Bruce Whittington, Loucas Raptis,...

   Synonyms: avian fowl feathered friend feathered folk

   Hypernyms: dinosaur vertebrate animal organism creature

2. A young bird, a nestling.
   • […] the foxes have holes, and the brydds of the aier have nestes, but [t]he sonne of the man hath not where onto leye his heede: […] - 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms,...
   • That ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird. - c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:...
3. A man, fellow.
   • He once took in his own mother, and was robbed by a 'pal,' who thought he was a doctor. Oh, he's a rare bird is 'Gentleman Joe'! - 1886, Edmund Routledge, Routledge's every boy's annual:
   • "What I mean - I expect that old, red-headed bird at the office sent you round with no other purpose." - 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no....
   • The door opened and a tall hungry-looking bird with a cane and a big nose came in neatly, shut the door behind him against the pressure of the door closer, marched over to the desk and placed a wrapped parcel on the...

   Synonyms: bloke chap guy boy bro broski bruh cat chappy chield cove covey dog [⇒ thesaurus] (slang) dawg dude fella fellow gadgie gate geezer gink gloak gome health

4. A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
   • And by my word! the bonny bird / In danger shall not tarry. - 1809, Thomas Campbell, Lord Ullin's Daughter:
   • After tea, the bright boys wash, clean their boots, and change into their “second-best” attire, and stroll forth[…]; sometimes to saunter, in company with others, up and down that parade until they “click” with one of...
   • Are you calling me “darlin’”? / Are you calling me “bird”? - 2007, Jules De Martino, Katie White, “That's Not My Name”, performed by The Ting Tings:

   Synonyms: broad chick dame lass babe bint bird cake colleen cutty damoiselle damsel elrig frail gal gel girl girlie girly grill hottie lassie little girl maggie

   1. (UK, Ireland, colloquial, by extension) A girlfriend.

      • Mike went out with his bird last night.
      • But all of a sudden though, just through the smoke / It's your bird laughing and joking with a bloke / Ain't just that either, as she moves closer / In a shape what looks like they're lovers, he's tonguing her! - 2002,...

      Synonyms: broad chick dame lass babe bint bird cake colleen cutty damoiselle damsel elrig frail gal gel girl girlie girly grill hottie lassie little girl maggie

5. An aircraft.
   • “Cabin cleaners? They have worked on this bird. Don't you know you've always got to clean up after the cleaners? What they don't teach you in school these days.” - 1967, Trudy Baker, Rachel Jones, Donald Bain...
   • Any of our birds squawking? - 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Miranda Keyes (Justis Bolding), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Crow's Nest:
6. A satellite.
   • Deployment of the fourth bird "should ensure that Inmarsat has sufficient capacity in orbit in the early 1990s, taking into account the possibility of launch failures and the age of some of the spacecraft in the...
   • Will a government- backed APSTAR satellite knock out a planned AsiaSat II bird? - 1992, Cable Vision:
   • In reality, the Air Force was never able to place a bird in orbit that quickly. - 2015, John Fuller, Thor's Legions: Weather Support to the U.S. Air Force and Army, 1937-1987, Springer, →ISBN, page 384:
7. Booing and jeering, especially as done by an audience expressing displeasure at a performer.
   • to give the bird
8. The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.
   • to flip the bird
   • 2002, The Advocate, "Flying fickle finger of faith", page 55. For whatever reason — and there are so many to chose from — they flipped the bird in the direction of the tinted windows of the Bushmobile.
   • Then she raised both hands above her shoulders and flipped him the bird with each one. - 2003, James Patterson, Peter de Jonge, The Beach House, Warner Books, page 305:

   Synonyms: the finger

9. A yardbird.
10. A kilogram of cocaine.
    • Never dirt on my knees I'm just serving these fiends Sell birds to the bees I sell birds to the trees - 2015 January 12, Lil Wayne, “Sh!t” (track 2), in Sorry 4 the Wait 2:

    Synonyms: chicken brick

11. A penis.
    • BUBBLES: One time I was making a model and I glued the wing to a B17 bomber to my bird by accident. - 2004 May 9, Mike Clattenburg, Mike Smith (actor), 05:29 from the start, in Trailer Park Boys(Conky), season 4,...
12. Snowbird (retiree who moves to a warmer climate).

Noun slang, uncountable

1. A prison sentence.
   • He’s doing bird.
   • Well, I’ll do my bird - I can ‘andle it, bird’s never been no trouble for me - and then I’ll get you. - 2012, Theodore Dalrymple, If Symptoms Persist:

Verb Entry 4

1. To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.
2. To catch or shoot birds; to hunt birds.
3. To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
   • MAMMON: These day-owls. SURLY: That are birding in men's purses - 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […],...
4. To transmit via satellite.
   • Unless the TV crew has its own flyaway, the locals can still defeat a story they couldn't prevent reporters from covering by cutting it off at the pass, when it is being birded through their facilities. - 1995, David D....
   • After being sent by fast car to Tel Aviv the cassettes would be 'birded' by satellite to the USA and London. - 2012, Yoel Cohen, Media Diplomacy, page 127:

Verb slang, transitive

1. To bring into prison, to roof.
   • Free Criminal, he got birded That's a L but I know he’ll firm it I was vexed when I heard that verdict - 2017, “No Hook”, ZK & Digga D (lyrics), CDM (music):

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