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as in to talk
to give information (as to the authorities) about another's improper or unlawful activities he snitched on his friend because he was only looking out for himself

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snitch

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verb (2)

snitch

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noun

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Verb
As someone who juggles deadlines, social events, and the occasional doom scroll until 1 a.m., my under-eyes are often the first to snitch. Larry Stansbury, Essence, 27 May 2025 An alive Isobel in turn revealed herself to Keane, pretended to want in on Forefront, and snitched on JOC’s whereabouts to prove her disloyalty. Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 20 May 2025
Noun
Upsides And Downsides Are At Stake Generative AI can readily be shaped as a tattletale or snitch by an AI maker. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025 Two of those snitches, Russo and Rubino, described the fake raid in detail, how the then-detective and two other men barged into the backroom parlor, smashed the screen of a Joker Poker machine, and left without making a single arrest or seizing a single piece of evidence. John Annese, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for snitch
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Noun
  • But an unnamed police informant told other police from Prince George’s County, Maryland that Abrego Garcia was tied to MS-13.
    Nick Penzenstadler, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
  • But being an informant implies some formal connection and ongoing relationship with the FBI.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Frizer and Skeres were fraudsters, and the sinister Poley was an informer, crucial to the exposure of the Babington Plot.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Option 2: If one prisoner informs while the other stays silent, the informer will go free while the silent one receives the harshest sentence.
    Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
Noun
  • But the joblessness numbers and declining participation among Black women suggest a complication to his pronouncement and a canary in the coal mine for broader economic instability.
    Richard Fowler, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The insurance crisis is the canary in the coal mine for the climate crisis.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • As the connections strengthened, the rats showed significant functional recovery.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Roughly half of all the mammal species on the planet are rodents such as rats, mice, squirrels, and hamsters and they are found on every single continent except for Antarctica.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Sep. 2025

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