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 China, the stool pigeon is the true hero of the revolution.
From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2017
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
"Never mind all that. Git that stool pigeon sober!"
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
