PIGEONHOLE


Meaning of PIGEONHOLE in English

I. noun

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Hence Buckshot LeFonque, a group devoted to the idea of making pigeonholes a thing of the past.

She got up and crossed to a little antique rosewood desk with pigeonholes and tiny drawers along the top.

Surely the people shoved in and out of these pigeonholes have not themselves changed so vastly and so often.

The judicial difficulties that arise when fitting variation into pigeonholes are testimony to evolution.

The male experience is seen as a universal experience, while the female experience is put in a different pigeonhole .

There were empty arched pigeonholes at the back, fretted and carved, and two empty little drawers.

II. verb

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Most people don't think of him as a real actor. He is pigeonholed as an action movie star.

When your band becomes successful, people immediately try to pigeonhole you, but we're into all kinds of music - dance, rock, jazz, blues.

You shouldn't pigeonhole people according to your first impressions of them.

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Bird-watchers have an austere view of existence: that which can not be pigeonholed should be shot.

It is difficult to decide whether Sun and Peng can be pigeonholed as belonging to a particular school, trend or coterie.

Joe Kennedy, like Clinton, is not easily pigeonholed as liberal, very much like his anti-bigness, pro-empowerment father.

The new president is not easily pigeonholed.

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