dead bird
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Noun
[edit]dead bird (plural dead birds)
- (baseball, slang) A ball which falls over the infielders’ heads for a hit, as if it were a bird shot by a hunter.
- Jones got on board with a dead bird to start the innning.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dead, bird.
- 1888, Oscar Wilde, “The Happy Prince”, in The Happy Prince and Other Tales:
- “Bring me the two most precious things in the city,” said God to one of His Angels; and the Angel brought Him the leaden heart and the dead bird.