Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A stool pigeon.
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- noun slang A
stool pigeon .
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- noun someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
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Examples
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Our fake-macho President Bush has shown himself to be the worst kind of stoolie, spilling the beans as soon as it became apparent that he needed to cover his electoral ass.
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Check out his background – he's a stoolie for the right, not an objective commenter.
Top U.S. commander in Iraq disagrees with early pull-out memo 2009
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He, along with his stoolie Pelosi, is trying to ram failed ideals down Americans 'throats.
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Widmark is aces, as is Thelma Ritter playing Jo, a veteran stoolie.
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Unless they had an oracle or some sort of immortal stoolie slipping them intel.
Demon From The Dark Kresley Cole 2010
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He moved on to the waterfront, ran the rackets for a while, then some stoolie got him sent up the river.
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With a nod to Dr. Doolittle, cozy fans will enjoy the competition between the amateur sleuth and the professional detective as she has a more accurate stoolie system to ask for help from than he does.
Hounding the Pavement-Judi McCoy « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009
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December 10th, 2007 at 9: 27 am jokerswild says: affleck is a stoolie! everybody kill shun him.
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Widmark shines, as does peerless character actress Thelma Ritter playing Jo, a veteran stoolie.
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Widmark is aces, as is the prolific Thelma Ritter playing Jo, a veteran stoolie.
John Farr: The Best "Under the Radar" Film Noir by Farr 2008
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