dodo

noun (plural dodos or dodoes)

• a large extinct flightless bird with a stout body, stumpy wings, a large head, and a heavy hooked bill. It was found on Mauritius until the end of the 17th century.

  • Raphus cucullatus, family Raphidae.
• informal an old-fashioned and ineffective person: dodos do enter the events, they just never make the finals