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Bird — investigating having wings being clipped (5)

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robin

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'bird' is the definition.
(robin is a kind of bird)

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(Other definitions for robin that I've seen before include "Small brown and red bird" , "Bird; Batman's aide" , "Hood, Goodfellow or redbreast?" , "Christmas songbird" , "Batman's helper" .)

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