as in informant
a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing
told the mule that if he ever turned stoolie, he'd end up spilling his guts in more ways than one
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Recent Examples of stoolie
At one point my head was whipped back and forth like a mafia stoolie being slapped silly by his don.
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Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2019
Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stoolie
Noun
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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
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But being an informant implies some formal connection and ongoing relationship with the FBI.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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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
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The insurance crisis is the canary in the coal mine for the climate crisis.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Aug. 2025
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As the connections strengthened, the rats showed significant functional recovery.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Sep. 2025
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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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“Stoolie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stoolie. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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