stool pigeon
Example Sentences
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There is something about a healthy personality that feels repelled by a snoop, a snitch, a stool pigeon, an informer.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2025
In the end, Mr. Reles, who was known as “Kid Twist,” became a stool pigeon.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2016
In American criminal circles, a fink was an informer or stool pigeon; a particularly egregious example of the species was given the intensified label of ratfink.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2014
Thordarson, for his part, tells me he thought he was helping to deliver a “notorious hacker” to the FBI, and didn’t know he was speaking to a fellow stool pigeon.
From Forbes ● Jun. 28, 2013
"Never mind all that. Git that stool pigeon sober!"
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
