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racing pigeons

racing pigeons is the plural of racing pigeon.

Meaning of racing pigeon

Noun

racing pigeon (plural racing pigeons)

  1. A homing pigeon that takes part in races.
    • Releasing some of the 12,000 racing pigeons that had arrived by special train (in foreground) at Dumfries Station for a race to their home lofts in Lanarkshire and West Lothian1954 April, “The Why and the Wherefore”, in Railway Magazine, page 292, photo caption

Questions about racing pigeons

What is racing pigeons the plural of?
Racing pigeons is the plural of racing pigeon.

Words near racing pigeons in the dictionary

  1. racing jacks
  2. racing line
  3. racing off
  4. racing out of the traps
  5. racing pigeon
  6. racing pigeons
  7. racing prototype
  8. racing prototypes
  9. racing stripe
  10. racing stripes
  11. racing thoughts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: racing pigeons (page history and authors); racing pigeon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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