jailbird

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{n} one who has been confined in jail
{i} prisoner, inmate, criminal, convict, one who has been in jail for a long time
If you refer to someone as a jailbird, you mean that they are in prison, or have been in prison. = convict. gaolbird someone who has spent a lot of time in prison
a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
A prisoner or an ex-prisoner
gaolbird
a British spelling of jailbird