All yardbird synonyms

noun yardbird

• convict — If someone is convicted of a crime, they are found guilty of that crime in a law court.
• crook — A crook is a dishonest person or a criminal.
• culprit — When you are talking about a crime or something wrong that has been done, you can refer to the person who did it as the culprit.
• felon — an acute and painful inflammation of the deeper tissues of a finger or toe, usually near the nail: a form of whitlow.
• fugitive — a person who is fleeing, from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway: a fugitive from justice; a fugitive from a dictatorial regime.
• gangster — a member of a gang of criminals, especially a racketeer.
• hoodlum — a thug or gangster.
• hooligan — a ruffian or hoodlum.
• lawbreaker — a person who breaks or violates the law.
• mobster — a member of a criminal mob.
• offender — to irritate, annoy, or anger; cause resentful displeasure in: Even the hint of prejudice offends me.
• thug — a cruel or vicious ruffian, robber, or murderer.
• blackmail — Blackmail is the action of threatening to reveal a secret about someone, unless they do something you tell them to do, such as giving you money.
• con — Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
• delinquent — Someone, usually a young person, who is delinquent repeatedly commits minor crimes.
• desperado — A desperado is someone who does illegal, violent things without worrying about the danger.
• deuce — Deuce is the score in a game of tennis when both players have forty points. One player has to win two points one after the other to win the game.
• evildoer — A person who commits profoundly immoral and malevolent deeds.
• guerilla — a member of a band of irregular soldiers that uses guerrilla warfare, harassing the enemy by surprise raids, sabotaging communication and supply lines, etc.
• heavy — of great weight; hard to lift or carry: a heavy load.
• hood — Hierarchical Object Oriented Design
• hustler — an enterprising person determined to succeed; go-getter.
• jailbird — a person who is or has been confined in jail; convict or ex-convict.
• gaolbird — Alternative spelling of jailbird.
• malefactor — a person who violates the law; criminal.
• mug — a drinking cup, usually cylindrical in shape, having a handle, and often of a heavy substance, as earthenware.
• muscle — a tissue composed of cells or fibers, the contraction of which produces movement in the body.
• outlaw — a lawless person or habitual criminal, especially one who is a fugitive from the law.
• racketeer — a person engaged in a racket.
• repeater — a person or thing that repeats.
• scofflaw — a person who flouts the law, especially one who fails to pay fines owed.
• sinner — a person who sins; transgressor.
• transgressor — to violate a law, command, moral code, etc.; offend; sin.
• trespasser — Law. an unlawful act causing injury to the person, property, or rights of another, committed with force or violence, actual or implied. a wrongful entry upon the lands of another. the action to recover damages for such an injury.
• wrongdoer — a person who does wrong, especially a sinner or transgressor.
• bad actor — a mean, ill-tempered, troublemaking, or evil person.
• criminal — A criminal is a person who regularly commits crimes.
• miscreant — depraved, villainous, or base.
• rascal — a base, dishonest, or unscrupulous person.
• lifer — a person sentenced to or serving a term of life imprisonment.
• loser — a person, team, nation, etc., that loses: The visiting team was the loser in the series.
• captive — A captive person or animal is being kept imprisoned or enclosed.
• detainee — A detainee is someone who is held prisoner by a government because of his or her political views or activities.
• hostage — a person given or held as security for the fulfillment of certain conditions or terms, promises, etc., by another.
• internee — a person who is or has been interned, as a prisoner of war.
• lag — netlag
• tough — strong and durable; not easily broken or cut.