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n. - A small compartment; A specific (often simplistic) category v. - Treat or classify according to a mental stereotype; Place into a small compartment.

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  • Typically, the agent likes to "pigeonhole" an artist.
  • "A 'present' vote was hard to pigeonhole which is exactly what Obama wanted."
  • I wrote the melody myself, and I don't think of myself as a good enough musician to kind of pigeonhole an era and write to it.
  • I wrote the melody myself, and I don't think of myself as a good enough musician to kind of pigeonhole an area and write to it.
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