pigeon

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person hired to transport film footage out of a region where transport options are limited.

   Kalb rushed to the airport and found a "pigeon" to take out the film: an American woman headed for London.

2. 2
   noun

   Concern or responsibility.

   It's their pigeon.

3. 3
   noun

   wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs

4. 4
   noun

   One of several birds of the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes.

5. 5
   noun

   The meat from this bird.

6. 6
   noun

   A person who is a target or victim of a confidence game.

7. 7
   noun

   A pacifist, appeaser, an isolationist, a dove.

8. 8
   noun

   A weak or useless person.

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin pīpiō Proto-Indo-European *-ōder. Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.? Latin -ō Latin pipio Old French pyjonbor. Middle English pygeoun English pigeon Inherited from Middle English pygeoun, borrowed from Old French pyjon, inherited from Late Latin pīpiōnem (“chirping bird”), derived from Latin pīpiāre (“to chirp”), of imitative origin. Partly displaced native English dove.