gallows bird

Noun

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Noun (1)

  1. a person who deserves to be hangedType of villain, scoundrel
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Gallows bird

a person who deserves the gallows. colloquial

From the entry Gallows.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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