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Jan. 23, 2015

railbird \REYL-burd\ noun 1. any kibitzer or self-styled critic or expert. 2. a horse-racing fan who watches races or workouts from the railing along the track. Quotes Vaes had so many fourths that, when parading a mount assigned to the Number Four gate, some railbird was sure to shout across the rail, "You got your own number today, Hector!" -- Nelson Algren, The Last Carousel, 1973 Origin Railbird is an Americanism from the late 1800s based on the sense of bird as a "frequenter" as in the coinage jailbird. This sense of rail referred to the fences around a racetrack.

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