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snitch
noun- an informer, especially a police informer UK, 1785
A high profile use of the term was in the motto of the television police drama Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1957–60)–“A detective is only as good as his snitch”. - You ass-kissing little snitch! — John Waters, Desperate Living, p. 166, 1099
- The snitch is comin’ out. He trusts you. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 13, 1960
- We’re talking to everybody who worked with Iris, might’ve known her. And we got our snitches to talk to yet. — Elmore Leonard, Glitz, p. 89, 1985
- Not the cops. They couldn’t smell a dead rat two feet away. But the damn dope fiend snitches could. — Drugstore Cowboy, 1988
- You’ll be the lowest sort of rat, the prince of snitches, the loudest cooing stool pigeon that ever grabbed his ankles for the man. — The Usual Suspects, 1995
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 106, 1996
- a piece of information supplied by a police informer UK
- If it was a major snitch, like a significant seizure [of drugs], the reward could go into five figures[.] — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 115, 2002
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