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Definition of Stoolpigeon
1. Noun. Someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police.
Generic synonyms: Betrayer, Blabber, Informer, Rat, Squealer
Derivative terms: Fink, Snitch, Snitch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stoolpigeon
Literary usage of Stoolpigeon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nostrums and Quackery: Articles on the Nostrum Evil and Quackery Reprinted by American Medical Association, Arthur Joseph Cramp (1921)
"... Ga., was another branch of the WM Griffin fakery with headquarters at Fort
Wayne, Ind. Dr. Lily M. Norrell was the stoolpigeon in this case. ..."
2. Centennial History of Missouri: (the Center State) One Hundred Years in the by Walter Barlow Stevens (1921)
"On one of the trips of the Peabody & Caldwell coach Bill Bunton, a saloon-keeper
who was in the band, took passage for Bannock and acted as stoolpigeon. ..."
3. Silhouettes from Life: On the Prairie, in the Backwoods by Anson Uriel Hancock (1893)
"It was the first time in his life that he had been branded (in print) as
a "shyster," "an impecunious fraud, "a lazy stoolpigeon," and other such epithets. ..."
4. The Marquis of Murray Hill by Benjamin Anthony Ronzone (1909)
"He is a stoolpigeon—a decoy—a pen-and-ink nondescript, who can write nothing but
what suits the schemes of the clique of lobbyists and stock-jobbers, ..."
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