jailbird , also: jail-bird
gaolbird BrE
canary-bird

The word of four respectable people against your jailbird record?

"Is it you fear being the wife of a jailbird?

He looked a jailbird if ever a man did.

Sam promised to round up all the information he could on the former jailbird.

I determined then and there to kill two jailbirds with one bomb.

It is a common experience among jailbirds to wake up and wonder why they are in jail.

He turns up eight years later as a jailbird, smoking cigarettes, so you know he's no good.

He truly believed that even a jailbird has a constitutional right to go on television.

I had absolutely no intention of being married to a jailbird."

I want to see that jailbird son of yours.

THE best-selling books here these days are all by jailbirds.

Your whiskers are growing, you already look like an old jailbird."

The Jailbird movie model used during flight scenes in the film had a series of both military and private owners.

On the street, however, the jailbird pulled the unexpected.

That you're a common jailbird and as guilty as hell.

I want her to be a mother to her daughter, not a jailbird."

Thus, twenty-six years later, did this little Slavic jailbird hold his ground.

"Kids could wind up calling them crooks and jailbirds in class," the Mayor said.

These were the thieves and the vagabonds, the jailbirds, the criminals.

The big-buck surroundings made him look like an escaped jailbird.

Jailbird Rock (1985) is a campy musical set in a prison.

"I've just found out that fine feathers made jailbirds!"

"I hear your jailbird son got home tonight, Trent!"

I was just one more in an endless stream of jailbirds as far as she knew.

Behavior modification techniques can turn every jailbird into a model prisoner, and make prisoners of us all.

He has the look of a gaolbird about him.

Kitcher, Barry, From gaolbird to lyrebird: a life in Australian ballet., Front Page, South Yarra, Victoria, 2001.

Virtually every outdoor scene has at least one bird in it, usually flying past, indifferent to human affairs; Meheret's baby is her "little blackbird"; Barnum's last name is apparently Bird, and he certainly is a "gaolbird," having spent a term in Pollsmoor, the same South African prison where Mano ends up.

Many of their adventures starred their principal adversaries, the villainous Moses Maggot and his sidekick the gaolbird Bodger, whose sister - the overweight teenage witch Lucretia Bodger (cf. Lucretia Borgia), with her cat, Gobstopper - also appeared quite frequently, as did a mad retired colonel.