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What is a stool pigeon?

What is a stool pigeon? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (slang) A decoy or an informer, especially one who is a spy for the police.
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Of course, it was possible that Kurt was a stool pigeon, leading him on as a test.
She treats Ophelia with a regretful disdain on realising she has become a stool pigeon.
He's also a drugs baron and when she interrupts him in the process of rubbing out a stool pigeon, she has to run for her life.
More often, they were prepared to play the stool pigeon not for thirty pieces of silver, but for much more mundane rewards.
Is it because it's far easier to take a stool pigeon to the cleaners than the government?
So many American mob killers have turned stool pigeon or gotten themselves arrested.

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