Usually means: Small, yellow, songbird; domesticated pet.
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  1. canary bird: Vocabulary.com
  2. canary-bird, canary bird: Wordnik
  3. canary bird: Wiktionary
  4. Canary bird, canary bird: Dictionary.com
  5. Canary bird: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Canary bird: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. canary bird: Rhymezone
  8. Canary bird: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. canary-bird: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. Canary-bird: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  11. canary bird: FreeDictionary.org
  12. canary bird: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. Canary bird: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. canary bird: Encyclopedia

(Note: See canary_birds as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (canary bird)

noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see canary, bird.
noun:  (slang) A jailbird.
noun:  (slang) A mistress.

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