snitcher

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an informer who secretly reports another person's wrongdoing to the police or another authority

   The gang threatened anyone they suspected of being a snitcher for the police.

2. 2
   noun

   a thief who steals furtively without using violence; a sneak thief

   The detective recognized the suspect as a practiced snitcher who targeted crowded stations.

Formed from snitch + the agent suffix -er. Snitch has been used in criminal slang for both stealing and informing since at least the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, though its deeper origin is uncertain.

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