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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Former Gambino mobster and government informant John Alite poses on a Queens street in 2013.—
Cara Tabachnick,
CBS News,
20 June 2026
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Rogness is charged with one count of being an accessory after the fact and one count of tampering with a witness, victim or informant.—
Angela George,
USA Today,
19 June 2026
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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
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And so every regime invests in having student informers.—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Matt Schmidt, founder of Schmidt Automotive Research, said BMW is a canary in a coal mine for the industry.—
Neil Winton,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2026
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Princess Kate is back at Royal Ascot and looking radiant in a canary-yellow look.—
Jennifer Hassan,
USA Today,
17 June 2026
Noun
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Beyond the more familiar terrain of diabetics, IVF patients, people using hormone therapy, and intravenous users of illicit drugs, people have been turning themselves into lab rats for new wellness frontiers.—
Matthew Sedacca,
Curbed,
16 June 2026
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Cope warns that a mouse only needs a dime-sized gap to get inside, and a rat not much more.—
Sharon Wu,
USA Today,
16 June 2026
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“Stoolie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stoolie. Accessed 22 Jun. 2026.
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