stool pigeon

Questions about stool pigeon

What does stool pigeon mean?

stool pigeon means "someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for stool pigeon?

Close synonyms include fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stoolie. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stool pigeon a common word?

stool pigeon is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.