stool pigeon

• Veralteter umgangssprachlicher Ausdruck für einen Polizeiinformanten oder eine Person, die eine Gruppe verrät, indem sie Behörden Informationen liefert; ursprünglich vom Einsatz eines Lockvogels zum Fangen anderer Vögel abgeleitet.

An old-fashioned slang term for a police informant or someone who betrays a group by providing information to authorities, originally derived from the use of a decoy pigeon to trap other birds.

1. Informant or spyC1informalamerican

   A person who secretly gives information to the police or authorities about criminal activities.

   Informant oder Spitzel

   • The gang suspected there was a stool pigeon in their midst.
   • He became a stool pigeon to avoid a long prison sentence.
   • The detective relied on a stool pigeon for inside information.