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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
snitch
I.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Grover snitched a couple of sugar packets from behind the counter.
▪ He watched as Grover snitched two packets of sugar from behind the counter.
▪ The supermarket has a problem with kids snitching candy bars off the shelves.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Grover, listening, snitched two packets of sugar from behind the counter.
▪ Oh, I just snitched the eyebrows from the top of the totem-pole.
▪ There was supposed to be an umbrella, but Mordaunt Dragon of Arms had snitched it for when he went fishing.
▪ Those who snitch can receive commendations and rewards of up to $ 500.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All well and good, until one day when a federal snitch gave away a wire room.
▪ At first most residents stayed home, afraid to be seen as snitches.
▪ Both witnesses were known liars and virtually professional snitches who got favors from jailers for informing, the court said.
▪ Names of a half dozen snitches have been listed as prosecution witnesses to whom Wooten allegedly confessed.
▪ Others have gone free because their prosecutors relied on junk science, jailhouse snitches or bad cops.
▪ Our local snitches no longer can drop a dime on some one.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
snitch

"informer," 1785, probably from underworld slang meaning "the nose" (1700), which apparently developed from an earlier meaning "fillip on the nose" (1670s). Snitcher in same sense is from 1827.

snitch

1803, "to inform," from snitch (n.). Meaning "to steal, pilfer" is attested from 1904, perhaps a variant of snatch (v.). Related: Snitched; snitching.

Wiktionary
snitch

n. 1 A thief. 2 An informer, usually one who betrays his group. 3 (rft-sense) (context British English) A nose. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To steal, quickly and quietly. 2 (context transitive English) To inform on. 3 (context slang transitive English) To contact or cooperate with the police for any reason.

WordNet
snitch
  1. n. someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police [syn: fink, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stoolie, sneak, sneaker, canary]

  2. v. take by theft; "Someone snitched my wallet!" [syn: hook, thieve, cop, knock off, glom]

  3. give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam" [syn: denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, stag]

Wikipedia
Snitch

Snitch may refer to:

  • Informant
Snitch (song)

"Snitch" is a song by American rapper Obie Trice, released as the second single from his second studio album Second Round's on Me (2006). The song features guest vocals from fellow rapper Akon, who also produced the song and helped to write it along with Trice.

Snitch (film)

Snitch is a 2013 American crime drama film directed by Ric Roman Waugh and starring Dwayne Johnson. The film was released in the United States on , 2013. The film also stars Barry Pepper, Susan Sarandon, Jon Bernthal, Benjamin Bratt and Michael Kenneth Williams.

Usage examples of "snitch".

He swerved away from the Beaters, one of whom had hit the Bludger toward him before he realized what Harry had done, and, Snitch in hand, Harry ducked the metal sphere once again before hovering near the middle of the field, holding up the Snitch with a triumphant grin.

Neighborhood he lives in, every third person on the street is a snitch, and the Colcannon job was close to home.

He was still a paid snitch, used by deadheads who would never understand.

I was right to send that money to Private Allenby in Pytch, disguised as a gift from a fictitious relative, even though my solicitor was so disapproving and snitched on me to Augusta.

They also seized all his disks, all his notebooks, and a tremendous booty in dogeared telco documents that Leftist had snitched out of trash dumpsters.

BellSouth printouts and documents that he had snitched out of telco dumpsters.

As he prowled the streets of downtown Los Angeles in search of a snitch with information, he wondered how long it would take after she had gone home to Sunnydale for him to stop missing her like they had parted only yesterday.

I line up some snitches and a couple of dockworkers, the sort of blokes I employed before, as if I were replacing those who were killed or fled, while at the same time I was quietly setting up a real ring of agents?

I turned the faxes over and slid them across the desk to her, keeping the one from the snitch and the one to me aside.

There were snitches in the employ of the City Watch, but they were often paid by the Mockers to give false information, and anyone who was truly in their pay was likely to turn up floating in the bay.

As soon as she took them, he snitched a spring roll off her plate and ate it before she could object.

And if somebody wanted the snitching to stop, Patrick was in even greater danger than Donovan.

At some point he figured that he stood to gain more by snitching on my dad than by sticking by him, and he was probably right.

He was the one who did the Snitching, if anyone had wanted revenge, it would have been me.

We­as­ley, co­ming thro­ugh the ga­te with what ap­pe­ared to be a gi­ant, be­ach-ball-si­zed Snitch flo­ating in front of her.