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词汇 stool pigeon
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Definition of stool pigeon in English:

stool pigeon

noun
informal
  • 1A police informer.

    (警察的)眼线,暗探

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The luckless spy spent most of the war in prisons and internment camps eking out a living as a stool pigeon.
    • More often, they were prepared to play the stool pigeon not for thirty pieces of silver, but for much more mundane rewards.
    • The song is about the ‘victim of someone's evil plan’ who gets turned in by a stool pigeon.
    • So many American mob killers have turned stool pigeon or gotten themselves arrested.
    • Willis is on the run, a stool pigeon in flight from Chicago; Perry is in heavy debt, and his calculating, blackmailing wife forces him to squeal to Bruce's vengeful bosses about where the contract killer now lives, for a finder's fee.
    • When a mob mastermind decides to turn stool pigeon and squawk, it's up to the S.W.A.T. team to protect him.
    • That film concerns a stool pigeon tracked down in Spain after 10 years by hired killers working for the crime boss on whom he has informed.
    • He was a Jew who began his career as a satirist of the Nazis and ended up as their stool pigeon.
    • He monopolizes the stand to the point that it becomes his designated place to sit as much as any director's chair; he is the star witness and stool pigeon for the prosecution.
    • Even if I did like crooks who are stool pigeons, I still wouldn't like you!
    Synonyms
    informer, betrayer
  • 2A person acting as a decoy.

    引诱他人入圈套者,囮子

Origin

Late 19th century: so named from the original use of a pigeon fixed to a stool as a decoy.

Definition of stool pigeon in US English:

stool pigeon

nounsto͞ol ˈpijənstul ˈpɪdʒən
  • 1A police informer.

    (警察的)眼线,暗探

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Willis is on the run, a stool pigeon in flight from Chicago; Perry is in heavy debt, and his calculating, blackmailing wife forces him to squeal to Bruce's vengeful bosses about where the contract killer now lives, for a finder's fee.
    • Even if I did like crooks who are stool pigeons, I still wouldn't like you!
    • More often, they were prepared to play the stool pigeon not for thirty pieces of silver, but for much more mundane rewards.
    • He was a Jew who began his career as a satirist of the Nazis and ended up as their stool pigeon.
    • That film concerns a stool pigeon tracked down in Spain after 10 years by hired killers working for the crime boss on whom he has informed.
    • When a mob mastermind decides to turn stool pigeon and squawk, it's up to the S.W.A.T. team to protect him.
    • He monopolizes the stand to the point that it becomes his designated place to sit as much as any director's chair; he is the star witness and stool pigeon for the prosecution.
    • So many American mob killers have turned stool pigeon or gotten themselves arrested.
    • The song is about the ‘victim of someone's evil plan’ who gets turned in by a stool pigeon.
    • The luckless spy spent most of the war in prisons and internment camps eking out a living as a stool pigeon.
    Synonyms
    informer, betrayer
    1. 1.1 A person acting as a decoy.
      引诱他人入圈套者,囮子

Origin

Late 19th century: so named from the original use of a pigeon fixed to a stool as a decoy.

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