bird colonel

noun

slang

: colonel sense 1a

Examples of bird colonel in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Captain is a senior Navy rank, equivalent to full-bird colonel in the Army, but Maverick’s contemporary Iceman, in contrast, had progressed to four-star admiral and the head of Pacific Fleet, one of the Navy’s biggest jobs. — Missy Ryan, The Atlantic, 22 July 2026

Word History

Etymology

from the eagle serving as insignia for this rank

First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for bird colonel

• diurnal
• eternal
• external
• fraternal
• infernal
• internal
• maternal
• nocturnal
• paternal
• pimpernel
• journal
• kernel