noun
General Slang
bird
· noun · police
A police helicopter.
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A police helicopter — usually heard on the radio ('the bird's up') or muttered when you can hear rotors over your neighbourhood at 2am.
“Bird's been circling for an hour, somebody's running.”
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Any aircraft, in pilot and military slang. Helicopter, jet, drone — if it flies, it's a bird.
“Get the bird in the air, we've got eyes-on five clicks east.”
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British slang for a prison sentence. From rhyming slang: birdlime = time.
“Doing bird again — third stretch in five years.”
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bird In A Sentence
Bird's been circling for an hour, somebody's running.
Get the bird in the air, we've got eyes-on five clicks east.
Doing bird again — third stretch in five years.
Origin & Usage
Aviation slang generally — pilots have called aircraft 'birds' forever. Police and military radio shorthand narrowed it to mean the chopper overhead.
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