Usually means: Informant who secretly betrays others.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word stool pigeon:

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  1. stool pigeon: Merriam-Webster
  2. stool pigeon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stool pigeon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. stool pigeon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. stool pigeon: Vocabulary.com
  6. stool-pigeon, stool pigeon: Wordnik
  7. stool pigeon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. stool pigeon: Wiktionary
  9. stool pigeon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. stool pigeon: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. stool pigeon: Dictionary.com
  12. stool pigeon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Stool Pigeon (song), Stool pigeon, The Stool Pigeon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. stool pigeon: Rhymezone
  15. stool pigeon: FreeDictionary.org
  16. stool pigeon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Stool Pigeon: The Word Detective
  18. stool pigeon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Stool pigeon: World Wide Words

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  1. stool pigeon: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stool pigeon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stool pigeon: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stool pigeon: Urban Dictionary
  2. Stool-pigeon: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

(Note: See stool_pigeoning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (stool pigeon)

noun:  (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.
noun:  (slang, obsolete, gambling) A decoy used in a crooked gambling game.
noun:  (slang) An informer to the authorities, especially one who gives up criminal associates.

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