0 present participle of pigeonhole --
1 to have an often unfair idea of what type someone or something is: --
Consultants found the experience frustrating - their reports were only partly implemented, or, worse still, just pigeonholed.
He is a film producer who can't be conveniently pigeonholed.
In addition to lacking a title, the original cover featured no band name, as the group wished to be anonymous and to avoid easy pigeonholing by the press.
Rothbell avoids pigeonholing into one type of story, and that some plots are very character-driven, while others are sort of based on one idea that we think is really funny.
Specifically he described three virtues: "unborn" meaning non-manufactured; "nondwelling" meaning that it can not be pinned down, and "free from pigeonholing" meaning that it is beyond conceptual reference points.
While managing the portrayal of popular musicians is as old as popular music, the particular pigeonholing of band members is a defining characteristic of boy and girl bands.
Such pigeonholing allows for a person to gain a quick, though possibly inaccurate, assessment of an interaction.
One of the themes there was to break down barriers created by the segregation of genres, and breaking music journalist/critic-driven pigeonholing.
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.
Writs for action were filled out for a litigant stating facts, without any necessity of pigeonholing them into specific forms.
