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Informant
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squealer
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. one who reveals confidential information in return for money [syn: informer , betrayer , rat , blabber ] domestic swine [syn: hog , pig , grunter , Sus scrofa ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Squealer may refer to: A person who squeals, such as an informant Squealer (Animal Farm) , character from Animal Farm Squealer (Dungeons & Dragons) , monster from Dungeons & Dragons Squealer, one of the original nine Beanie Babies "Squealer", song from ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Squealer \Squeal"er\ (-[~e]r), n. One who, or that which, squeals. (Zo["o]l.) The European swift. The harlequin duck. The American golden plover.
Usage examples of squealer.
To have any influence with her, I must get out of the power of the police, I must overcome her belief that I am a stool and a squealer, and I must prove to her that I can make a success by going straight.
CHAPTER XIII When Maggie rode away forever from the house of the Duchess with Barney Palmer and her father, after the denunciation of Larry by the three of them as a stool and a squealer, she was the thrilled container of about as many diversified emotions as often bubble and swirl in a young girl at one and the same time.
Barney and Old Jimmie took you away to begin your new career--the same night that I ran away from those gunmen who thought I was a squealer, and from Casey and Gavegan.
So he framed it up so that I appeared to be a squealer, and started the gangmen after me.
Either you produce the squealer at once, or I turn on the light, Murphy.
But, if no obliging peeler Will arrest this midnight squealer, My own peculiar arm of might Must undertake the job to-night.
As Gerry explained in a quiet voice that had no business to issue from a bulk that could scarcely squeeze between the table and the wall, King was a squealer, an informer.