pigeon drop
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English
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Noun
[edit]pigeon drop (plural pigeon drops)
- A confidence trick in which the mark or "pigeon" is persuaded to give up a sum of money in order to secure the rights to a larger sum of money or more valuable object.
- 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 330:
- “You some kind of confidence man or dope peddler or something? You trying to work one of those pigeon drops on me?”