stool pigeon

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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