snitcher

Related to snitcher: stitcher

snitcher

slang A derogatory term for someone who notifies authority figures about illegal or prohibited activity or those who commit such activity; an informer or a snitch. You ratted me out, you little snitcher!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

snitcher

(ˈsnɪtʃɚ)
n. an informer. (Originally underworld.) Clare is a snitcher. Watch what you say around her.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • squealer
  • practice on
  • practice on (someone or something)
  • alarms and excursions
  • alarums and excursions
  • excursion
  • gamekeeper
  • old poacher makes the best gamekeeper
  • poacher
  • an old poacher makes the best gamekeeper
References in periodicals archive
[112] See Gerald Otto & Michael Seitlinger, Die 'Spitzelrichtlinie': Zur (Umsetzungs)Problematik der Data Retention Richtlinie 2006/24/EG [The Snitcher Directive: Regarding the (Transposition-)Problems of the Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EQ, 2006 Medien und Recht 227, 232 (Austria).
[117] Arguing that traditional investigative measures are equally well suited and therefore constitute a 'less intrusive measure': Gerald Otto & Michael Seitlinger, Die 'Spitzelrichtlinie': Zur (Umsetzungs)Problematik der Data Retention Richtlinie 2006/24/EG [ The Snitcher Directive: Regarding the (Transposition-)Problems of the Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC], 2006 Medien und Recht 227, 233 (Austria).
The cost of not giving blood is counted in lives - like wee Ryan Snitcher's
THE GIFT OF LIFE: Francesca Snitcher cradles baby Ryan who needed a dozen blood transfusions after being born 14 weeks early; PLEA: Dr Tom Turner
We've become a nation of snitchers and grassers to the slightest stupid thing.
Management is very relaxed and called 'mismanagement' with a Grand Master who tries to keep the pack and circle in order but often is the worst culprit for disorder, an RA (Religious Adviser) who takes note of and dishes out the punishments in the circle at the end of the hash, although you do get many snitchers who give the RA a hand.
I hope Britain isn't going to be encouraged to turn into a nation of snitchers, because it won't suit it.
And I didn't even publish my data, so it's no use comparing me to sociologists or any of the other frigging snitchers. First I mapped out the remaining dignified modes of existence and then recorded their final entrapment and destruction.
"I would never speak freely about how I felt outside the family; outside I was always aware there may be snitchers listening.
SNITCHERS are to be paid up to pounds 500 to expose neighbours who have lied to get social housing.
Arnie plays a federal agent for the witness protection scheme, who feigns the deaths of low-life snitchers then sets them up with new identities.