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      [Noun]  | "gallows bird" 


      1: a person who deserves hanging


      Origin: circa 1785 ;

       [ "gallows bird" ]

      1: n. A defendant who is certain to be condemned to death with no chance of pardon or reprieve.

        * e.g.,  ... "Down here in Macomb, Alabama, we knowed that nigra-boy Tom Robinson was a gallows bird 'fore the trial even got started." 

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