Definition of snitch
: one who snitches : tattletale
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Examples of snitch in a Sentence
several men were sentenced to prison based on the now-questionable testimony of a jailhouse snitch
Recent Examples of snitch from the Web
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Some students call them snitches or see them as meddling do-gooders.
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So this teenager, late at night over a period of six months, builds a 16-foot raft inside his house while the neighborhood soplones — snitches — sniff around and the police sniff around and the country falls apart at his feet.
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Still, this snitch knew specific details about Tiffany's attack -- and there was more.
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Days later, Goldberg told The Wall Street Journal the same thing — going so far as to liken Cohen to the Gambino crime family’s famous snitch, Sammy ‘the Bull’ Gravano.
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Dealing with a snitch In December 1991, Thompson had already filed to run for a fifth term as sheriff and tax assessor/collector, joint positions in Presidio County.
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The other day, a fellow gang member told him the bosses were sending killers from Los Angeles to take care of a suspected snitch in New York.
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Pearl has been an NCAA snitch, an NCAA pariah and now finds himself in NCAA purgatory.
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The jailhouse snitch’s testimony was discredited — he was shown to have perjured testimony against another defendant.
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Origin and Etymology of snitch
origin unknown
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First Known Use: circa 1785
in the meaning defined above
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Synonyms
betrayer, informant, informer, rat, snitcher, squealer, stool pigeon, talebearer, tattler, tattletale, telltale;
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Recent Examples of snitch from the Web
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While serving life in California’s Folsom Prison for the 1974 murder of his son’s girlfriend, who’d snitched on a robbery Clarence Ray Allen committed, Allen solicited hits on eight witnesses against him.
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Chuck Rizzo avoids going to jail for allegedly intimidating a key witness who snitched on him.
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Before New Year's Eve, for example, the Honolulu Police Department released a statement and phone number for tipsters to snitch on their neighbors.
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When women and children were slain, people would be willing to snitch.
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Schools and parents must also teach kids that reporting concerning behavior isn’t the same thing as snitching on a friend, Langman says.
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When Frank is arrested, not only for robbery but for killing a cop, Izzy worries that Frank will snitch and he’ll be prosecuted, too.
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Kim, the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, wants coaches to snitch on one another.
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The only hope for buyers who feel they've been wronged by the super mafia is to get evidence that a super has snitched.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'snitch.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
First Known Use of snitch
1801
Origin and Etymology of snitch
probably alteration of snatch
SNITCH Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of snitch for English Language Learners
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: a person who tells someone in authority (such as the police or a teacher) about something wrong that someone has done : someone who snitches
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