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| canary | |
| 1. n. A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands. |  |
| 2. n. Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour. | |
| 3. n. A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour. | |
| (color panel, F2FB62) | |
| 4. n. A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands. | |
| 5. n. A lively dance, possibly of Spanish origin (also called canaries). | |
| 6. n. Any test subject, especially an inadvertent or unwilling one. (From the mining practice of using canaries to detect dangerous gases.) | |
| 7. n. (computing) A value placed in memory such that it will be the first data corrupted by a buffer overflow, allowing the program to identify and recover from it. | |
| 8. n. (informal) A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer. | |
| 9. n. (slang) An informer or snitch; a squealer. | |
| 10. n. (slang) A (usually yellow) capsule of the short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital/pentobarbitone (Nembutal). | |
| 11. n. (Australia, informal) A yellow sticker of unroadworthiness. | |
| 12. n. for anything wrong with it, to slap a canary on it (that's slang for an unroadworthy sticker) or present you with some other fine. | |
| 13. n. , url=http://groups.google.com/group/alt.folklore.urban/browse_thread/thread/fa746a2ce0910619/c30d3731ce1ba01?hl=en&q=unroadworthy+%22canary%220c30d3731ce1ba01 | |
| 14. n. they can slap a yellow canary on it, but then who cares you got rid of it. | |
| 15. n. , url=http://groups.google.com/group/aus.motorcycles/browse_thread/thread/f1657e5c54924b51/eb711a9457daebcd?hl=en&q=unroadworthy+%22canary%22eb711a9457daebcd | |
| 16. adj. Of a light yellow colour. | |
| 17. v. (intransitive) to dance nimbly (as in the canary dance) | |
| 18. v. (slang) to inform or snitch, to betray secrets, especially about illegal activities. | |
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