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n. - Someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police; A thief who steals without using violence.

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  • Personally I think he was a snitcher when he was locked up.
  • When you've hosted an almost day-long telethon every year since 1966 like Sinatra-snitcher Jerry Lewis has, chances are you're going to run out of material at some point.
  • News of this latest attempt to restore Sunday school standards in the White House reached the outside world via a memo snuck out to a Washington Post reporter by a heroic...
  • As in any slang there are (or were) numerous words meaning ` excellent ': snitcher, rube (short for rubydazzler), or corker.
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