gallows bird
a person who deserves to be hanged.
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How to use gallows bird in a sentence
Then the boy ran back and picked up the kid, and took it to the Black gallows bird.
The Lilac Fairy Book | Andrew LangThis gallows-bird was the one great writer of his age and country, and initiated modern literature for France.
Familiar Studies of Men and Books | Robert Louis StevensonWe are now after the assassin, who you may see has got off at this place, for here is my ladder which the gallows-bird has used.
Why, thou gallows-bird—thou jail-rat—thou friend of the hangman and his customers!
Kenilworth | Sir Walter ScottSuch a gallows-bird, with so many bad habits, would be arrested anywhere, and then what good should I get of my income?
Timar's Two Worlds | Mr Jkai
British Dictionary definitions for gallows bird
informal a person considered deserving of hanging
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