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supergrass
noun- an informer who gives the police substantial amounts of information, or who informs on a major crime or terrorist operation UK, 1978
Bertie Smalls, a notorious or legendary (depending on your point of view) small-time robber turned police informer became, in 1973, the original “supergrass”. - I’m not asking you to be a super-grass. But I am advising you to have a slightly more co-operative attitude. — Anthony Masters, Minder, p. 61, 1984
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 110, 1996
- The supergrass system led to an immediate and impressive upsurge in prosecutions[.] — Martin Fido and Keith Skinner, The Official Encyclopaedia of New Scotland Yard, p. 256, 1999
- This guy was a regularly paid informer, a wannabe super-grass–practically a cop like them[.] — Lanre Fehintola, Charlie Says ..., p. 125, 2000
- good quality marijuana; phencyclidine, the recreational drug known as PCP or angel dust; a combination of the two US, 1977
- — Richard A. Spears, The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink, p. 494, 1986
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 289, 2003
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