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squealer noun- a police informer UK, 1865
- Frank turned to Stan. “You squealer!” he sneered. — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 252, 1947
- A confused old man, he came to Chico’s cell twice and asked for the squealer in Number Nineteen, forgetting he’d taken him to deliver his information to those waiting below. — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 241, 1952
- “Why, you stoolpigeon,” I said, hurt-like, “you Puerto Rican squealer.” — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 20, 1967
- “Why, you stoolpigeon,” I said, hurt-like, “you Puerto Rican squealer.” — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 20, 1967
- “Oh, you’ll have your squealer’s money.” — C.D. Payne, Cut to the Twisp, p. 54, 2001
- in trucking, a device that records time and speed data, used by company officials to assure compliance with laws and regulations US
Known conventionally as a “tachograph”. - — Montie Tak, Truck Talk, p. 153, 1971
- a baby, especially an illegitimate one UK, 1865
- She had left a Montana bordello to run afoul of a spermy gambler who ruined her commercial curves and blew away my heady dreams of mountainous greenbacks by blasting a squealer into her belly. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, p. 25, 1971
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