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n. (plural of stool pigeon English)
Usage examples of "stool pigeons".
They wanted all the stool pigeons in the neighborhood to see her getting out of their car.
He knew that Danny Gimp often came up with good information, but he considered all stool pigeons unclean, and it was an offense just talking to them.
They worked a special detail from eight until four, and this was the hour they usually contacted stool pigeons.
If there were no eyewitness accounts, the detectives had to depend on stool pigeons.
Whenever possible they covered this route in the early hours of morning, shortly before going off duty, and contacted their stool pigeons.
He did not particularly like stool pigeons, but he would now have to check out the fire-breathing Baptist, Walter Drake, as well.
Yet it was only the most daring and most secretive of stool pigeons who dared enter the Black Ship.