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pigeon drops

pigeon drops is the plural of pigeon drop.

Meaning of pigeon drop

Noun

pigeon drop (plural pigeon drops)

  1. A confidence trick in which the mark or "pigeon" is persuaded to give up a sum of money in order to secure the rights to a larger sum of money or more valuable object.
    • “You some kind of confidence man or dope peddler or something? You trying to work one of those pigeon drops on me?”1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 330

Questions about pigeon drops

What is pigeon drops the plural of?
Pigeon drops is the plural of pigeon drop.

Words near pigeon drops in the dictionary

  1. pigeon drop
  2. pigeon dropper
  3. pigeon droppers
  4. pigeon dropping
  5. pigeon droppings
  6. pigeon drops
  7. pigeon English
  8. pigeon fancier
  9. pigeon fancier's lung
  10. pigeon fancying
  11. Pigeon Forge

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