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Birds and bees is London Cockney rhyming slang for the knees.
A good, righteous airplane. Current airplanes need not apply, this is a nostalgic term referring to birds gone by. By all accounts the F8 Crusader was a tits machine.
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NATO codeword meaning missiles may be fired only at contacts positively identified as hostile.
Red Birds is slang for secobarbital.
to throw something (“he fired stones at the birdsâ€)
usually the "deck apes" and small box coxswains. The Aviation Boatswain's Mates were usually the guys who took care of towing the birds around the ramp area or flight decks and who made sure they were secured to the 'ground' when the weather went to pot.
Jump from moving engine or car, usually when a wreck is imminent
Box of birds is British slang for a state of elation, happiness.
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Blue Birds is slang for Phenobarbital.
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Specifically a masthead constructed with sides and sometimes a roof to shelter the lookouts from the weather, generally by whaling vessels, this has become a generic term for what is properly called masthead. The term is derived from the Norse who carried cages of crows or ravens at the masthead. When the ship lost sight of land, they would release one of the birds and then sail in the same direction as the bird toward the nearest land.
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Any one of numerous species of American singing birds belonging to Vireo and allied genera of the family Vireonidae. In many of the species the back is greenish, or olive-colored. Called also greenlet.
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A median ossification back of the lophosteon in the sternum of some birds.
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An extensive artificial group of birds including the wading, swimming, and cursorial birds.
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A flight of birds.
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Any one of numerous species of rapacious birds belonging to Vultur, Cathartes, Catharista, and various other genera of the family Vulturidae.
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Any one of many species of Old World singing birds belonging to Motacilla and several allied genera of the family Motacillidae. They have the habit of constantly jerking their long tails up and down, whence the name.
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Any long-legged bird that wades in the water in search of food, especially any species of limicoline or grallatorial birds; -- called also wading bird. See Illust. g, under Aves.
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Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.
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A commissure uniting the two main tendons in the foot of certain birds.
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A tribe of birds comprising the sheathbills.
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One who, or that which, warbles; a singer; a songster; -- applied chiefly to birds.
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A very fine wavy crosswise color marking, or a patch of such markings, as on the feathers of birds.
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Any one of numerous species of small Old World singing birds belonging to the family Sylviidae, many of which are noted songsters. The bluethroat, blackcap, reed warbler (see under Reed), and sedge warbler (see under Sedge) are well-known species.
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The bristlelike feathers near the mouth of many birds.
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Formerly, the flesh of any of the edible beasts of the chase, also of game birds; now, the flesh of animals of the deer kind exclusively.
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Devouring worms; feeding on worms; as, vermivorous birds.
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Any one of numerous species of small, often bright colored, American singing birds of the family or subfamily Mniotiltidae, or Sylvicolinae. They are allied to the Old World warblers, but most of them are not particularly musical.
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To sing in a trilling, quavering, or vibratory manner; to modulate with turns or variations; to trill; as, certain birds are remarkable for warbling their songs.
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Having a backbone, or vertebral column, containing the spinal marrow, as man, quadrupeds, birds, amphibia, and fishes.
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The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes.
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