Stool Pigeon
nounid
132306·updated May 18, 2026verified
someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
MWE
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Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- canary
- alternatephrasing
- Stoolpigeon
- plural
- Stool Pigeons
- possessive
- Stool Pigeon's
- pluralpossessive
- Stool Pigeons'
Framework definitions
- §1
- a dummy pigeon used to decoy others
- §2
- someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
- §1 · legacy_primary
- someone acting as an informer or decoy for the policeDR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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