| 单词 | police informer |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspolice informer police informer n. a person who gives information to the police about crimes and their perpetrators, esp. one who does this on a regular basis. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > informing on or against > [noun] > informer > police informer setter1630 nose1789 mouchard1802 rat1818 stool-pigeon1830 knark1851 police informer1851 nark1859 telegraph1864 copper1885 sarbut1897 Noah's Ark1898 stool1906 snout1910 finger1914 policeman1923 stoolie1924 shelf1926 grass1929 grasshopper1937 grasser1950 stukach1969 supergrass1975 1851 Times 2 Jan. 6/2 No small satisfaction is felt by the mass of the working classes at the punishment of a police informer such as Allais. 1930 Forum Dec. 375/1 A police informer in New York, for instance, is a stool or snitch. 2000 Guardian 5 Aug. i. 2/3 Fleckney, a powerful drug baroness, described how she became a police informer in the early 1990s. < as lemmas |
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