pigeon

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/ˈpɪ.dʒɪn/

noun 6name 5verb 1

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

carrier, homing, racing | feral | wood

clay

At the shooting range, competitors took turns blasting clay pigeons into the sky.

QUANT

flock

PIGEON + VERB

fly

strut

The pigeon strutted across the park bench, bobbing its head at the other birds.

nest, roost | coo, croon

PIGEON + NOUN

droppings, shit

The park bench was covered in pigeon droppings, so we had to find somewhere else to sit.

loft | fancier

Definitions

noun

One of several birds of the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes.

The meat from this bird.

A person who is a target or victim of a confidence game.

A pacifist, appeaser, an isolationist, a dove.

A person hired to transport film footage out of a region where transport options are limited.

Kalb rushed to the airport and found a "pigeon" to take out the film: an American woman headed for London.

At this point, all the commercial airports in Pakistan were closed. The only way to get film out was over land. John promptly hired me to be what was then known in the business as a "Pigeon," and installed me in a comfortable room in his hotel. […] I would then hand-carry his film out of the country, via Peshawar, the Khyber Pass, through the Kabul Gorge, and up to Kabul, Afghanistan, where I would meet a BBC courier and transfer the film bag.

verb

To deceive with a confidence game.

noun

Concern or responsibility.

It's their pigeon.

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Idioms & Phrases

cut the pigeon wing

To dance with graceful or fancy movements.

[…]that was because no manager could imagine that audiences would pay to see Negro performers in any other role than that of Mississippi River roustabouts; but there was lots of ta

Example Bank

Kalb rushed to the airport and found a "pigeon" to take out the film: an American woman headed for London.

Wiktionary

It's their pigeon.

Wiktionary

The pigeon and the ostrich are both birds; one can fly and the other cannot.

Tatoeba · #35127

So the pigeon can feel the magnetic field on its head, but it can't feel the Earth's magnetic field.

Tatoeba · #41075

This is why birds like the pigeon or the Arctic tern can find their way around the world.

Tatoeba · #62400

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, pigeon is marked as informal, archaic, US, UK, idiomatic. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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