Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An informer; a tell-tale; one who turns queen's (or king's) evidence.
- noun A handcuff.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
- noun a thief who steals without using violence
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Examples
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Winwood, the poet-forger, the snitcher, the coward, and the stool, was returned for a fresh forgery.
Chapter 22 2010
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But if my kid was a gang member, then all this would end with a couple of conversations held with the snitcher or a simple call to the prosecutor...
The sexting craze that is making ordinary teenage idiots into child pornographers. Ann Althouse 2009
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News of this latest attempt to restore Sunday school standards in the White House reached the outside world via a memo snuck out to a Washington Post reporter by a heroic whistle blower and/or leaker-snitcher, depending on your ethical standards.
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When you've hosted an almost day-long telethon every year since 1966 like Sinatra-snitcher Jerry Lewis has, chances are you're going to run out of material at some point.
Jerry Lewis Slags Off The Gays Via The Medium Of Cricket 2007
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Personally I think he was a snitcher when he was locked up.
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Winwood, the poet-forger, the snitcher, the coward, and the stool, was returned for a fresh forgery.
Chapter 22 1915
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It reached me, at last, that Cecil Winwood, the poet-forger, the snitcher, the coward, and the stool, was returned for a fresh forgery.
The Jacket (Star-Rover) Jack London 1896
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As in any slang there are (or were) numerous words meaning ` excellent ': snitcher, rube (short for rubydazzler), or corker.
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