Snitch

Definition: Snitch

Snitch

Noun

1. Someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police.

Verb

1. Take by theft; "Someone snitched my wallet!".

2. Give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "snitch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1921. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Snitch

Disclosure

Divulge, reveal, break; squeal, tattle, sing, rat, snitch; let into the secret; reveal the secrets of the prison house; tell; (inform); breathe, utter, blab, peach; let out, let fall, let drop, let slip, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag; betray; tell tales, come out of school; come out with; give vent, give utterance to; open the lips, blurt out, vent, whisper about; speak out; (make manifest); make public; unriddle; (find out) a; split.

Tattletale, snitch, fink, stool pigeon, canary.

Crosswords: Snitch

I really hate to be a snitch. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I, Beaver Cleaver, swear to die for Larry Mondello and always stick up for him and never snitch on him and be his friend forever (Leave It to Beaver; writing credit: Katherine Albert; Joe Connelly)

It ain't nice to snitch, Shorty (Helter Skelter; writing credit: Vincent Bugliosi; Curt Gentry)

I'm not the snitch I don't go to the cops to get rich (Guilty Until Proven Innocent; performing artist: Jay-Z)

A Snitch in Time (1950)

Snoop and Snitch in Triple Trouble Sneak (1941)

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Books

• A Snitch in the Snob Squad (reference)

• Informant Files: The Fbi's Most Valuable Snitch (reference)

• L.A. Snitch (reference)

• Snitch (reference)

• Snitch Culture: How Citizens are Turned into the Eyes and Ears of the State (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Expression using "snitch": snitch on. Additional references.

Albanian

spiunoj (spy, tell on), vjedh (cop, Frisk, hook, lift, mooch, nobble, peculate, pilfer, pinch, prig, purloin, Rob, salvage, scrounge, steal, take away, thieve, walk off with), kallëzoj (delate, denounce, inform, inform against, narrate, peach, rat, report, sneak, squeak, tell on), hundë (boco, boko, conk, nose, nozzle, smeller). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نم (gossip, sneak, tale, tattle, tell smb. smth., tell tales), ‏وشى (blow the whistle, intersperse, malign, nark, peachy, rat, rubricate, sing, sneak, tale, tattle, tell, tell on, tell tales, telltale, traduce), ‏الواشي (informer, sneak), ‏إختلس (embezzle, misappropriate, palm, purloin, rob, scrounge, siphon, snaffle, snatch, steal, subtilize), ‏أنف (beak, nose, pecker, rhino, snoot, snout), ‏أخذ خلسة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

свивам (bend, constrict, contract, convulse, cop, double, double up, draw, knap, knit, knit together, knot, neck, pinch, pucker, roll, screw, screw up, set, shorten, swing, turn, turn down, twist, wad, warp, work), крада (filch, knap, lift, loot, mooch, plunder, poach, prig, purloin, rustle, scarp, steal, thieve, win), доноснича (fink, grass, peach, squeak, squeal, stool, whistle), доносник (calumniator, communicant, delator, grass, informant, informer, rat, sneak, squeaker, stool pigeon, telltale, whisperer). (various references)

Chinese 

告密者 (sneak, squealer, tipster). (various references)

Farsi 

کش رفتن (Abstract, Cabbage, Nip, Palm, Pilfer, Prig, Snip, Swipe), خبرکش (Rumormonger), دله دزدی کردن (Pilfer). (various references)

French

piquer (snaffle, sneak), pif (snout), moucharder (sneak), mouchard (sneak), chaparder, cafarder (sneak). (various references)

German

klauen (claws, crib, filch, hoofs, lift, Nick, pilfer, pinch, shoplift, steal, swipe, to shoplift, to snitch, to swipe). (various references)

Greek 

κλέβω (cheat, elope, filch, nab, pick pockets, pinch, purloin, snaffle, steal, thieve), κλέπτω (cop, crib, defalcate, embezzle, kidnap, purloin, rifle, scrounge, steal, swipe, thieve), καταδότησ (informer, snitcher, squealer, telltale), καταδότης (fink, grass, informer), καταδίδω (shop on, split on). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�'� וב (filch, purloin, steal, thieve, walk off with), �'� ב (burglar, robber, sneak thief, steal, thief). (various references)

Hungarian

orr (conk, muzzle, nasal, nose, pecker, proboscides, proboscis, Snoot, snout, snozzle, toe). (various references)

Italian

rubacchiare (filch, pilfer). (various references)

Pig Latin

itchsnay.(various references)

Portuguese

roubar (abstract, bereave, bone, cabbage, despoil, embezzle, extort, fake, filch, grab, hold up, kidnap, loot, lurch, make away with, nab, picaroon, pick, pirate, plunder, prig, purloin, rifle, rob, rustle, screw out of, scrounge, snoop, steal, strip, swipe, take away, thieve), denunciar (arraign, betray, delate, denounce, denunciate, detect, inform against, peach, tell), delatar (delate, denounce, denuntiate, inform against, peach). (various references)

Russian 

стащить (filch, pull off, scrounge, snoop), красть (abstract, crib, lift, pilfer, purloin, rustle, steal, swipe), доносчик (checker, delator, denunciator, fink, informer, nark, noser, rat, sneak, sneaker, squeaker, squeal, squealer, tattletale, whistle-blower, whistler). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ukrasti (filch, finger, lift, pilfer, purloin, rob, steal, swipe, thieve, walk off with), prijaviti (grass, inform, inform against, rat, register, tattle, tell on, turn in), potkazivanje (denouncement, denunciation), potkazati (betray, denounce), krađa (larceny, pickings, pinch, stealing, theft, thievery). (various references)

Spanish

soplarse (blow, sneak, tell on), soplón (fink, grass, informer, nark, sneak, sneaky, squealer, tattler, telltale), zampuzar (pawls), napias (hooter, hooters, snout), birlarse. (various references)

Swedish

sno (contort, hustle, lift, pinch, swipe, twiddle, twirl, twist, whip), knycka (bone, collar, crib, filch, hustle, jerk, nip, nobble, snaffle, sneak, snoop, walk off with). (various references)

Thai

แอบฉกฉวย, ฟ้อง, ขี้ขโมย (thievish). (various references)

Turkish

ispiyonlamak (fink on, rat, sneak, snitch on, split on, spy on, squeal, tell on smb.), hakkında bilgi vermek (diagnose, snitch on, split on), fitnelemek (instigate, snitch on), aşırmak (abstract, bag, cop, crib, filch, help oneself to, hoist, hook, make off with, mooch, pass over, pilfer, prig, purloin, scrounge, snaffle, steal, walk off with, whip), çalmak (abstract, adopt, bag, beat, beat out, blow, chime, cop, crib, defalcate, filch, finger, grind, grind out, heist, hijack, hoist, hook, hoot, incline, jangle, jingle, knelt, knock, knock off, lift, make off with, mooch, nobble, peal, pilfer, pinch, play, plunder, rap, render, ring, rustle, scrounge, sneak, sound, steal, strike, swipe, tend, thieve, toll, twang, verge, verge into, verge on, walk away with, walk off with, whip). (various references)

Ukrainian

щиголь по носу, ніс (beak, beezer, boco, boko, conk, fore, nose, nozzle), поцупити (nab, nail, nibble, nip, pilfer, pull, scrounge, walk away, walk off, win), доносити (delate, inform, inform against, peach, pimp on, round on, waft, weasel), донощик (appellant, beefer, checker, delator, denunciator, informant, informer, nose, noser, telltale, weasel). (various references)

Vietnamese 

kẻ chỉ điểm, chỉ điểm (informer, pig), ăn cắp vặt mách lẻo. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "snitch": snitched, snitcher, snitchers, snitches, snitching. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Snitch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hsinchu, Nimtech, nitch, Nitech, Nitsch, Saitoh, sanitact, Shiach, sicht, sicth, sietch, skitch, sknitch, slitch, smitch, snach, snartch, snatchy, snath, snith, snoch, snotch, snoth, snutch, snuth, zitch. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: chints.

-1 letter: chins, chits, hints, stich, thins.

-2 letters: chin, chis, chit, cist, hins, hint, hisn, hist, hits, ichs, inch, itch, nits, shin, sinh, sith, snit, thin, this, tics, tins.

-3 letters: chi, cis, hic, hin, his, hit, ich, ins, its, nit, nth, sic, sin, sit, tic, tin, tis.

-4 letters: hi, in, is, it, sh, si, ti.

+1 letter: chitins, chitons, ethnics, sthenic.

+2 letters: asthenic, chanties, chintses, chintzes, chitlins, chitosan, christen, citherns, cithrens, etchings, ichnites, itchings, jacinths, kitchens, nitchies, scathing, schizont, scything, sithence, snitched, snitcher, snitches, technics, thickens, unstitch.

+3 letters: anarchist, antishock, asthenics, bunchiest, cantharis, catechins, cathepsin, chanciest, chantries, chinkiest, chitinous, chitlings, chitosans, christens, chunkiest, clothings, cohosting, dehiscent, ethicians, euthenics, hatchings, hesitance, hesitancy, hoactzins, hyacinths, hypnotics, itchiness, jacinthes, katchinas, lecithins, machinist, macintosh, mechanist, mutchkins, nightcaps, orthicons, phenetics, phonetics, photonics, punchiest, schizonts, schnitzel, scotching, scutching, sketching, smutching, snatchier, snatching, snitchers, snitching, sphincter, stanching, stanchion, starching, stenchier, stitching, switching, switchman, switchmen, synthetic, tachinids, teachings, thickness, thinclads, trichinas, unhitches, whinchats, witchings, yachtings.