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Definition of Pigeon

Pigeon

Any bird of the order Columbae, of which numerous species occur in nearly all parts of the world.

An unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull.

To pluck; to fleece; to swindle by tricks in gambling.

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Pigeon Quotations

I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.
David Attenborough

The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can't spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay- pigeon shooting.
Guy Ritchie

No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do.
Dabney Coleman

The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked with green and purple.
William John Wills

Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.
Bud Abbott

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.
Jim Hightower

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Pigeon Translations

pigeon in Danish is due
pigeon in Dutch is duif, tamme duif
pigeon in Finnish is kyyhkynen
pigeon in French is sourde, pigeon, colombe
pigeon in German is Taube
pigeon in Hungarian is galamb, balek
pigeon in Italian is colomba, piccione
pigeon in Norwegian is due
pigeon in Portuguese is pombo
pigeon in Swedish is duva

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