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n. - Someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police.

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  • Mami would find out because the younger "stooly" siblings would run home and squeal, and the next Saturday you were given extra chores at home.
  • You, my friend are just a stooly and are being played.
  • Where does the hand luggage go: under those narrow stooly chairy things, spilling out onto the tiny little aisle?
  • To do otherwise, guaranteed a huge class-action lawsuit the city couldn't lose: but Cooley's stooly Trutovich was pushing for it even as he lies he's trying to save the...
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