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dead pigeon
noun- in a criminal enterprise, a double-crosser US
- — R. Frederick West, God’s Gambler, p. 225, 1964: “Appendix A”
- a person who is destined to lose US, 1919
- Well, sir, Mary is a dead pigeon, the way I see it, and Barney goes for that kind of case. — Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny, p. 377, 1951
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