Yardbird 

Yardbird or Yard Bird is an American slang term for a chicken....It has been for about 100 years. It has nothing to do with plastic lawn ornaments, you idiots. When you call somebody a yardbird, it's basically the same as calling them a bird brain, jackass, dumbass, fool, etc.

Hey you fuckin' yardbird, you just spilled my beer!

Yardbird by FatButch August 25, 2010

yardbird 

native central kansas slang for chickens, also slang for a truck driver that hauls chickens.

hey guys, wanna get some BBQ yardbird after work?

that damn yardbird is goin' too slow, 10-4.

yardbird by huckleberry finn October 28, 2005

Yardbird 

Yardbird is a very old English and New American term for an ill bred game cock.
As far back as the 1600's or earlier in England nobles fought game roosters. These were carefully bred gamecocks, the offspring of highly bred hens mated to winning well bred roosters.
In order to train these roosters, the nobles would take the rooster at 1 year old to one of many country farms. The bird would be turned loose in the barnyard and left there for 1-2 years to grow and mature. There would always be hens at the barnyard that were of unknown breeding. The hens would lay their eggs out in the weeds and hatch out chicks from the rooster. The males would grow up and of course appear to be gamecocks but would either not be game or would be very inferior.

These roosters were referred to as "Yardbirds". The term grew to mean a person of bad breeding, a convict, a lowlife.
This is the true story of "Yardbird" as a deragoty term.

That baseball player is just a yardbird, nothing special.

Yardbird by CookeCity August 29, 2018

yardbird 

jail/prison slang for poultry served because of it's questionable origin... could be a regular bird(s) that was killed in/on the yard

"what's for dinner tonite?"
"yardbird"
"what the eff is a yardbird?"
"exactly what it sounds like... for all we know they killed the shit in the yard & fed it to us"

yardbird by d i z k o 2 0 8 July 12, 2018

yardbird 

1. (Also) Today, used as a term to describe a person who like classic rock, from the blues, to rock & roll, to pop of the '60s, to '80s hair metal. Usu. one who enjoy only such music.

2. One who endulges in clothing fashions of the 1960s (e.g. mod) religiously.

Coined from the name of '60s band The Yardbirds.

1. That girl likes AC/DC? What a yardbird!
My friend the yardbird loves the band Them.
She's not a yardbird; She likes Aerosmith, but she also likes Avril Lavigne.


2. I've been looking for a ruffly cravat in thrift stores -- one might call me a yardbird!
He's not really a yardbird; they didn't wear silly jackets like those in the '60s.

yardbird by Isabella February 28, 2005

Yardbird 

n. A useless person; a waste of space.

Like plastic gnomes and flamingoes on people's yards.

What a fucking idiot. That yardbird can't even make toast.

Yardbird by Hally November 9, 2004

Yardbird 

A generally useless person, who works at a shipyard. Known for stealing various tools and working very slowly. The scruffy facial hair and hardhat is a dead giveaway.

"Hey man, are these yardbirds ever gonna leave? They've been working here for months."

"My socket set has gone missing. Must've been those yardbirds."

Yardbird by kermitsmokescrackandidontcare February 8, 2012