<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.</li><li>a fowl or game bird.</li><li>Sports. clay pigeon.</li><li>a shuttlecock.</li><li>Slang. a person, especially one having some peculiarity: He's a queer bird.</li><li>Informal. an aircraft, spacecraft, or guided missile.</li><li>Cooking. a thin piece of meat, poultry, or fish rolled around a stuffing and braised: veal birds.</li><li>Southern U.S. (in hunting) a bobwhite.</li><li>Chiefly British Slang. a girl or young woman.</li><li>Archaic. the young of any fowl.</li><li>the bird, Slang. disapproval, as of a performance, by hissing, booing, etc.: He got the bird when he came out on stage.</li><li>scoffing or ridicule: He was trying to be serious, but we all gave him the bird.</li><li>an obscene gesture of contempt made by raising the middle finger.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object) to catch or shoot birds.</li><li>to bird-watch.</li></ul>