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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • nounSlang A person acting as a decoy or as an informer, especially one who is a spy for the police.
  • noun A pigeon used as a decoy.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who looks over the hand of a card-player and signals its contents to a confederate.
  • noun A pigeon fastened to a stool, and used as a decoy.
  • noun Hence A person employed as a decoy: as, a stool-pigeon for a gambling-house: such a fellow is generally a “rook” who pretends to be a“pigeon.” See pigeon, 2, and rook, 3.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • nounslang A decoy or an informer, especially one who is a spy for the police.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
  • noun someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
  • noun a dummy pigeon used to decoy others

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From the practice of tying decoy pigeons to a stool to attract other pigeons.]

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From the act of tying or even nailing a pigeon to a stool to act as a decoy for hunters.

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From the act of tying or even nailing a pigeon to a stool to act as a decoy for hunters.

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Noun[edit]

/how-to-hole-in-one-mini-golf-game-pigeon.html. (pluralstool pigeons)

  1. (originally) A pigeon tied to a stool by a piece of twine, used as a decoy to entice free-flying birds to the ground to be shot or trapped.
  2. (slang,obsolete) A decoy used in a crooked gambling game.
  3. (slang) An informer to the authorities, especially one who gives up criminal associates.
    Synonyms:stoolie, stooly; see alsoThesaurus:informant

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  • Bulgarian: мюре(bg)n(mjure)
  • Chinese:
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  • Finnish: vasikka(fi)(slang)
  • French: balance(fr)f, indic(fr)m, mouchard(fr)m
  • German: please add this translation if you can
  • Greek: πληροφοριοδότης(el)m(pliroforiodótis), (colloquial)χαφιές(el)m(chafiés)
  • Italian: pentito(it)m
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: politispionm, angiver(no)m
  • Polish: kapuś(pl)m, kabel(pl)m
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  • Russian: наседка(ru)f(nasedka), подсадная у́тка(ru)f(podsadnaja útka)
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References[edit]

  • 2005: Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 17th ed. Edited by John Ayto.

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  • not-pologies, notpologies
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