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What (who) is pigeon-hole - definition
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Pigeon hole; PigeonHole; Pigeon Hole; Pigeon-hole; Pigeon-Hole; Pigeonhole (disambiguation)
pigeon-hole
also pigeonhole
(pigeon-holes, pigeon-holing, pigeon-holed)
1.
A pigeon-hole is one of the sections in a frame on a wall where letters and messages can be left for someone, or one of the sections in a writing desk where you can keep documents.
N-COUNT
2.
To pigeon-hole someone or something means to decide that they belong to a particular class or category, often without considering all their qualities or characteristics.
He felt they had pigeonholed him...
I don't want to be pigeonholed as a kids' presenter.
VERB: V n, be V-ed as n
pigeonhole
see pigeon-hole
Pigeonhole
·vt To place in the pigeonhole of a case or cabinet; hence, to put away; to lay aside indefinitely; as, to pigeonhole a letter or a report.
II. Pigeonhole ·noun A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, ·etc.;
- so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote.
Wikipedia
Pigeonhole
Pigeonhole or pigeon hole may refer to:
- Pigeonholes, nesting spaces in a dovecote
- Pigeonhole, one of the boxes in a pigeon coop
- Pigeonholing, classifying things into categories
- Pigeonhole principle, a mathematical principle
- Pigeonhole sort, a sorting algorithm
- Pigeon-hole messagebox, a communication method
- Pigeonhole (album), by the band New Fast Automatic Daffodils
- Pigeon Hole (band), a Canadian hip hop duo
- Pigeon Hole Station, once part of Victoria River Downs Station, Northern Territory, Australia
Examples of use of pigeon-hole
1. In a country suffused with political correctness, Wente is refreshing, if hard to pigeon–hole.
2. In a country suffused with political correctness, Wente is refreshing, if hard to pigeon-hole.
3. How dare you try and pigeon–hole all women by saying they must be skinny in order to strip tease.
4. So in future we are required to spell pigeon–hole, for instance, as pigeonhole and leap–frog as leapfrog.
5. "I honestly believe that my success has come about because I wouldn‘t let people pigeon–hole me," she says.