Sunday Times Prize Crossword 4476 Sunday March 11th 2012

[Frank97]

8d Slang word for “prison” — time (4) is it CANS?
Thanks for looking.

[shooty]

bird ?

[Frank97]

Sounds good shooty but I have C?N?, so I must be way of somewhere, thanks.

[shooty]

number 4.
bird (bɜːd)

— n
1. any warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate of the class Aves , characterized by a body covering of feathers and forelimbs modified as wings. Birds vary in size between the ostrich and the humming birdRelated: avian , ornithic
2. informal a person (usually preceded by a qualifying adjective, as in the phrases rare bird, odd bird, clever bird )
3. slang chiefly ( Brit ) a girl or young woman, esp one's girlfriend
4. slang prison or a term in prison (esp in the phrase do bird ; shortened from birdlime , rhyming slang for time )

[shooty]

sorry. just seen your post

[shooty]

cans, i would say USA. but have never heard of cans time
cons time ?

[Frank97]

Thanks anyway for the suggestion.

[Neveracrossword]

Cant - can= prison, t= time, cant can mean slang,

[Frank97]

Thank you Neveracrossword.