Usually means: Acrobatic dance step, old-fashioned.
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  1. pigeonwing: Merriam-Webster
  2. pigeonwing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pigeonwing: Wordnik
  4. pigeonwing: Wiktionary
  5. pigeonwing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. pigeonwing: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Pigeonwing, pigeonwing: Dictionary.com
  8. pigeonwing: FreeDictionary.org
  9. pigeonwing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (pigeonwing)

noun:  A wing of a pigeon, or a wing like it.
noun:  An old style of dressing men's side hair in a form resembling a pigeon's wings; or a wig of similar shape.
noun:  A fancy dance step executed by jumping and striking the legs together.
noun:  A certain fancy figure in skating.
noun:  (tempering) A color, brown shaded with purple, coming between dark brown and light blue in the table of colors in drawing the temper of hardened steel.

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