The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word PARAKEET
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result PARAKEET
- Kept area free for bird
- A dissolute guy hugged by favourite flapper
- Bird ready for fluent repetition after drinking firewater
- A playboy in love — small pecker?
- Bird in a scrape, being swallowed by cat?
- A libertine, stabbing domesticated bird
- A libertine favourite caged bird
- Favourite holding a dissolute fellow
- A collector entertained by favourite bird
- Bird bit around tropical fruit
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What does PARAKEET mean?
PARAKEET noun- Any of various species of small parrot primarily of tropical regions.