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noun

ˈnärk

Definition of nark

British

as in informer

a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing he began to suspect that there was a nark in his organization who was tipping off Scotland Yard

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verb

British

as in to annoy

to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts during the war some of the British were narked by their American allies, who were perceived as arrogant

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Recent Examples of nark

Noun

He gets dinged for a pesky OWI, loses his job at CBS, and then gets outed by some nark in Oklahoma. — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026 The team's 33-15 loss gave it a 2-11 record, which is the worst nark in the NFC. — Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025

Verb

As home secretary, Theresa May narked cops by lecturing them in public and cutting back on their powers to stop and search passers-by. — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019

Recent Examples of Synonyms for nark

Noun

One of State Security’s main goals, as well as a central source of its strength, is turning civilians into informers.

— Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 19 May 2026
And so every regime invests in having student informers.

— Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026

Definition of informer

Noun

Sentenced to life in prison, Buchanan maintained a grip over gangs in the South Bay area of San Diego, according to an FBI report of an informant’s interview.

— Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
Sguros was listed as the informant on West’s death certificate, and several months after the initial death investigation, was legally authorized to release West’s remains to a cremation service business.

— Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of informant

Verb

Gee, who used to pop into fraternity parties unannounced to keep tabs on them, said he is not bothered by the reintegration of the three formerly rogue organizations.

— Brittany Shammas, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
This is a dense picture—there’s almost too much to unpack, if you can be bothered to care about any of it.

— Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of bother

Noun

For a cold moment the silence locked a grip on our table, though it was broken, at the edges, by the golf commentators moaning and harrumphing, Rory McIlroy having had a canary on a seventeenth fairway somewhere this championship Sunday.

— Kevin Barry, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2026
Astronauts bring them on journeys to keep an eye on whether or not the water filtration systems are working, much the way miners used to take canaries down to the coal mines to check for poisonous gas leaks.

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of canary

Verb

On Monday, a court granted the US government’s request to deny release of a former OpenAI engineer accused of bugging a top-secret conference room to steal the frontier lab’s secrets.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026
And as the team moved into the couple’s guest house on their San Diego rental property, the filmmakers feared that the home was bugged and ordered a device to try to de-bug it, without success.

— Kirsten Chuba, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of bug

Verb

Those governments provide assurances that people won’t be persecuted or tortured, federal attorneys said.

— Lindsay Whitehurst, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
Also, some immigration cases involve people seeking asylum because they are being persecuted by a foreign government and releasing a person’s full name could be considered sensitive or even dangerous.

— Laura Tillman, Hartford Courant, 11 Sep. 2026

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