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birds

noun

plural of bird
1
as in men
a member of the human race they're a couple of tough old birds who can manage without any interference from their grandchildren

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2
as in snorts
chiefly British a vocal sound made to express scorn or disapproval the Liverpool fans were quick to give the visiting footballers the bird

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for birds
  1. men
  2. snorts
  3. people
  4. boos
  5. creatures
  6. catcalls
  7. guys
  8. lives
Noun
  • Founder David Vargas coaches members — the gym is men-only — on everything from their diets to their relationships with their families.
    — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Three years later, Wuornos began her killing spree, fatally shooting seven men in Florida between 1989 and 1990.
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of men
Noun
  • The Rodents of Unusual Size that attack Westley in a swamp work because they are played by small men in rodent suits, rather than coolly conjured from pixels; their deliberate artifice is the thrill, and Reiner provided the voice for their hideous snorts.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025
Definition of snorts
Noun
  • Another 13 people were wounded on downtown Sacramento’s K Street and 10th Street, in what became the deadliest mass shooting in the city’s history.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2026
  • Organizers say more than 125,000 people are expected throughout the event, bringing in millions of dollars for the local economy.
    — Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 19 June 2026
Definition of people
Noun
  • Eventually, overwhelming boos from the rest of the crowd directed at the people fighting, and then security arrived to handle it.
    — David Hookstead OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • At Kinnick Stadium, deafening boos greeted the Cyclones on their sideline in warmups, before kickoff and after halftime.
    — Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of boos
Noun
  • The seagrape trees and dunes offer a chance for wildlife lovers to spot plenty of birds along with other creatures that call these beaches home, and the water is exceptionally calm for an Atlantic shore.
    — Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
  • And then in Book 2, that attraction that the creatures have to him in the magical world of Gilmouria becomes stronger.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of creatures
Noun
  • Especially women, with all those drunken servicemen rolling through, packs of them, fights spilling out of the cafés, catcalls and spitting in the streets.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • For Dua, puberty and social maturity become knotted up in unpredictable notions of bodily harm (whether acted upon, or merely threatened), as Serbian boys and men harass her on the way home from school, lacing their catcalls with ethnic slurs.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 13 May 2026
Definition of catcalls
Noun
  • The guys who supposedly figured out how to travel across the ocean better than any NFL team before them.
    — Chris Branch, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • No, not Dakota, and not one of her top-three guys from The Bachelorette.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of guys
Noun
  • Tragedies aside, some decent people lead happy lives and many do not; some wicked people suffer and many do not.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
  • So while high-dimensional spheres might not exist in the physical world, our digital lives run more smoothly because of them.
    — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of lives
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“Birds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/birds. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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