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carrier-pigeon

carrier-pigeon is the alternative form of carrier pigeon.

Meaning of carrier pigeon

Noun

carrier pigeon (plural carrier pigeons)

  1. A domestic pigeon which transports attached messages or very small parcels from the place where it is released to a familiar destination.
    • At length, after wheeling his toothpick slowly round and round in the air, as if it were a carrier pigeon just thrown up, he suddenly made a dart at the drawing,1843, Charles Dickens, chapter 21, in Martin Chuzzlewit
    Synonyms:
    homer, homing pigeon

Forms of carrier-pigeon

pluralcarrier-pigeons

Questions about carrier-pigeon

What is carrier-pigeon the alternative form of?
Carrier-pigeon is the alternative form of carrier pigeon.

Words near carrier-pigeon in the dictionary

  1. carrier sets
  2. carrier shell
  3. carrier shells
  4. carrier wave
  5. carrier waves
  6. carrier-pigeon
  7. carrier-pigeons
  8. carrierbag
  9. carrierbags
  10. Carriere
  11. Carrieres

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