yard bird

Questions about yard bird

What does yard bird mean?

yard bird means "a military recruit who is assigned menial tasks". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for yard bird?

Close synonyms include yardbird, convict, con, inmate, yardbird. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is yard bird a common word?

yard bird is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.