0 present participle of pigeonhole
1 to have an often unfair idea of what type someone or something is:
He is a film producer who can't be conveniently pigeonholed.
Consultants found the experience frustrating - their reports were only partly implemented, or, worse still, just pigeonholed.
Defining swallowing function by age: promises and pitfalls of pigeonholing.
There is always a danger of pigeonholing people.
As a general principle, we should be encouraging more people to spend time working both inside and outside government, rather than pigeonholing them into one or the other.
Consistency in sentencing is a worthy aim, but not at the price of pigeonholing offences in a way that takes no account of aggravating or mitigating circumstances in particular cases.
While reception was warm, reviewers tussled with the task of pigeonholing the sound of the album, roll-calling contemporary and influential bands and works.
Writs for action were filled out for a litigant stating facts, without any necessity of pigeonholing them into specific forms.
However, despite being the most widely used names for the genre, these terms are often criticized for pigeonholing artists into hipster subculture and are derisive.
One of the themes there was to break down barriers created by the segregation of genres, and breaking music journalist/critic-driven pigeonholing.
