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Gallows bird

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person who deserves, or is likely, to be hanged. archaic

    "Everybody along Long Wharf knows you called him a gallows bird. He's not used to it."

  2. 2
    a person who deserves to be hanged wordnet

Etymology

From gallows + bird. Compare German construction Galgenvogel (literally “gallows-fowl" or "gallows-bird”), and French gibier de potence, as well as similar English jailbird.

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