do bird

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do bird

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Originally Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from bird-lime for "time".

verb does bird · doing bird · did bird · done bird · do one's bird

UK, dated, informal to do time (to serve a prison sentence).

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@misc{do_bird_2026,
  title = {do bird},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/do%20bird},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}