ALL meanings of birds and bees
bird and bee
B b - noun birds and bees 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. 1
- noun birds and bees a fowl or game bird. 1
- noun birds and bees Sports. clay pigeon. a shuttlecock. 1
- noun birds and bees Slang. a person, especially one having some peculiarity: He's a queer bird. 1
- noun birds and bees Informal. an aircraft, spacecraft, or guided missile. 1
- noun birds and bees Cookery. a thin piece of meat, poultry, or fish rolled around a stuffing and braised: veal birds. 1
- noun birds and bees Southern U.S. (in hunting) a bobwhite. 1
- noun birds and bees Chiefly British Slang. a girl or young woman. 1
- noun birds and bees Archaic. the young of any fowl. 1
- noun birds and bees the bird, Slang. disapproval, as of a performance, by hissing, booing, etc.: He got the bird when he came out on stage. scoffing or ridicule: He was trying to be serious, but we all gave him the bird. an obscene gesture of contempt made by raising the middle finger. 1
- verb without object birds and bees to catch or shoot birds. 1
- verb without object birds and bees to bird-watch. 1
- idioms birds and bees a little bird, Informal. a secret source of information: A little bird told me that today is your birthday. 1
- idioms birds and bees bird in the hand, a thing possessed in fact as opposed to a thing about which one speculates: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Also, bird in hand. 1
- idioms birds and bees birds of a feather, people with interests, opinions, or backgrounds in common: Birds of a feather flock together. 1
- idioms birds and bees eat like a bird, to eat sparingly: She couldn't understand why she failed to lose weight when she was, as she said, eating like a bird. 1
- idioms birds and bees for the birds, Slang. useless or worthless; not to be taken seriously: Their opinions on art are for the birds. That pep rally is for the birds. 1
- idioms birds and bees kill two birds with one stone, to achieve two aims with a single effort: She killed two birds with one stone by shopping and visiting the museum on the same trip. 1
- idioms birds and bees the birds and the bees, basic information about sex and reproduction: It was time to talk to the boy about the birds and the bees. 1
- noun birds and bees (Idiomatic) (euphemistic) informal sex education, especially describing the sexual activity of animals rather than that of people. 0