jackdaw
- n common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery
- There is also a dramatized fable called "The Jackdaw of Rheims" in which the jackdaw is a midget toedancer.
- In his salad days, Singer Sands honked and rocked his way to sudden fortune with a voice like a jackdaw's cry.
- He sleeps in the bathtub of a West Side apartment belonging to the Whole Sick Crew, a jackdaw's collection of oddballs and endalls.