one of a set of small open boxes fixed to a wall. You leave letters, messages etc for particular people in the boxes. to unfairly consider a person, activity etc as belonging to a particular type or group pigeonhole sb/sth as sth
a specific (often simplistic) category treat or classify according to a mental stereotype; "I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European" place into a small compartment
so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote
To place in the pigeonhole of a case or cabinet; hence, to put away; to lay aside indefinitely; as, to pigeonhole a letter or a report
treat or classify according to a mental stereotype; "I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European"