- any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
- a fowl or game bird.
- Sports.
- clay pigeon.
- a shuttlecock.
- a person, especially one having some peculiarity: He's a queer bird.
- an aircraft, spacecraft, or guided missile.
- a thin piece of meat, poultry, or fish rolled around a stuffing and braised: veal birds.
- (in hunting) a bobwhite.
- a girl or young woman.
- the young of any fowl.
- the bird, Slang.
- disapproval, as of a performance, by hissing, booing, etc.: He got the bird when he came out on stage.
- scoffing or ridicule: He was trying to be serious, but we all gave him the bird.
- an obscene gesture of contempt made by raising the middle finger.
- to catch or shoot birds.
- to bird-watch.
- a secret source of information: A little bird told me that today is your birthday.
- a thing possessed in fact as opposed to a thing about which one speculates: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
- people with interests, opinions, or backgrounds in common: Birds of a feather flock together.
- to eat sparingly: She couldn't understand why she failed to lose weight when she was, as she said, eating like a bird.
- useless or worthless; not to be taken seriously: Their opinions on art are for the birds. That pep rally is for the birds.
- to achieve two aims with a single effort: She killed two birds with one stone by shopping and visiting the museum on the same trip.
- basic information about sex and reproduction: It was time to talk to the boy about the birds and the bees.
- U.S. basketball player.
- any warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate of the class Aves, characterized by a body covering of feathers and forelimbs modified as wings. Birds vary in size between the ostrich and the humming bird
- a person (usually preceded by a qualifying adjective, as in the phrases rare bird, odd bird, clever bird)
- a girl or young woman, esp one's girlfriend
- prison or a term in prison (esp in the phrase do bird; shortened from birdlime, rhyming slang for time)
- something definite or certain
- the person in question has fled or escaped
- sex and sexual reproduction
- people with the same characteristics, ideas, interests, etc
- get the bird informal
- to be fired or dismissed
- (esp of a public performer) to be hissed at, booed, or derided
- to tell someone rudely to depart; scoff at; hiss
- to accomplish two things with one action
- without resistance or difficulty
- a (supposedly) unknown informant
- deserving of disdain or contempt; not important
- nickname of (Charlie) Parker
