1951 M. Shulman Many Loves of Dobie Gillis 77: Unless somebody would start this mob to the sugar bowl, I was a dead pigeon.at dead pigeon (n.) under dead, adj.
1951 M. Shulman Many Loves of Dobie Gillis 215: The Jollity Theater is a crummy burlesque house on Minneapolis’s skid row. It is patronized largely by vagrants, winos, dehorns, grifters.at dehorn, n.