as in sucker
one who is easily deceived or cheated
a confidence man in search of another pigeon
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Recent Examples of pigeon
While the pageant top prize went to Miriam Abrahams, who spent a month hand-crafting a papier mâché pigeon ensemble, Meindersma and Erskine still felt like grand prize winners as one of the seven pigeon acts chosen to perform at Pigeon Fest out of hundreds of entries.
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Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 18 June 2025
Hits from Anderson include an over-the-shoulder Puzzle handbag (a small version sells for $3,850) and surreal styles like a clutch shaped as a pigeon or tomato, and shoes that substitute the heel with nail polish bottles, roses and cracked eggs.
—Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Money, 2 June 2025
Our voices echoed up while, on the roof, pigeons cooed.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
Monkeys, rats, pigeons – even fish and wasps – have all demonstrated transitive inference in one form or another.
—Olga Lazareva, The Conversation, 1 July 2025
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Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 18 June 2025
Hits from Anderson include an over-the-shoulder Puzzle handbag (a small version sells for $3,850) and surreal styles like a clutch shaped as a pigeon or tomato, and shoes that substitute the heel with nail polish bottles, roses and cracked eggs.
—Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Money, 2 June 2025
Our voices echoed up while, on the roof, pigeons cooed.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
Monkeys, rats, pigeons – even fish and wasps – have all demonstrated transitive inference in one form or another.
—Olga Lazareva, The Conversation, 1 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pigeon
Noun
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Be prepared for the inevitable by having these throat-soothing suckers in stock.—
Alex Apatoff,
People.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Muscles contract to reduce water pressure inside the sucker.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 June 2025
Noun
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The remains of about 1,100 victims are unidentified, the OCME said.—
David Chiu,
People.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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The shooting victims are in stable condition, and Radford is in custody.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Along the coast, Essaouira’s briny sea winds rattle blue shutters, and gulls circle above salt-stained, crumbling ramparts.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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There are a few that fight the seagulls when the gulls try to steal a pizza crust that all the pigeons have been worrying, and there are a few that hang back and wait until the gulls are driven off.—
Ian Frazier,
New Yorker,
5 May 2025
Noun
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The problem is that any Fed governor who agrees with him risks looking like a patsy, according to UBS’s Paul Donovan.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
30 July 2025
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News stories about Iran and Netanyahu playing him as a patsy didn’t help.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
23 June 2025
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“Pigeon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pigeon. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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