Meaning & use
Pigeonholed
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Classified or categorized someone or something too rigidly, often unfairly, into a single narrow role or type.
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After one horror film, the actress felt pigeonholed as a scream queen.
Critics pigeonholed the band as a one-hit wonder despite their varied catalog.
A note on using this word
Comes from the small compartments ('pigeonholes') of old writing desks used to sort papers, extended metaphorically to sorting people into rigid categories.
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