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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a military recruit who is assigned menial tasks [syn: yard bird, yardbird]
2: a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison [syn: convict, con, inmate, yard bird, yardbird]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: ¹yard Date: circa 1941 1. a soldier assigned to a menial task or restricted to a limited area as a disciplinary measure 2. an untrained or inept enlisted man

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. US sl. 1 a new military recruit. 2 a convict.