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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police [syn: fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stool pigeon, stoolie, sneak, sneaker, canary] v
1: take by theft; "Someone snitched my wallet!" [syn: hook, snitch, thieve, cop, knock off, glom]
2: give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam" [syn: denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: circa 1785 one that snitches ; tattletale II. intransitive verb Date: 1801 inform, tattle • snitcher noun III. transitive verb Etymology: probably alteration of snatch Date: 1904 to take by stealth ; pilfer

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v. sl. 1 tr. steal. 2 intr. (often foll. by on) inform on a person. --n. an informer. Etymology: 17th c.: orig. unkn.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(snitches, snitching, snitched) 1. To snitch on a person means to tell someone in authority that the person has done something bad or wrong. (INFORMAL) She felt like a fifth-grader who had snitched on a classmate. = grass VERB: V on n, also V 2. A snitch is a person who snitches on other people. (INFORMAL) = grass N-COUNT

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

To turn snitch, or snitcher; to turn informer.

Moby Thesaurus

abstract, and, annex, appropriate, bag, beak, bear witness against, beezer, betray, betrayer, blab, blabber, blabberer, blabbermouth, blow the whistle, boost, borrow, canary, conk, cop, crib, defraud, delator, embezzle, extort, filch, fink, hook, inform against, inform on, informer, lift, make off with, narc, nark, nick, nip, palm, peach, peacher, pecker, pilfer, pimp, pinch, poach, purloin, rat, run away with, rustle, schnozzle, scrounge, sell out, shoplift, sing, smeller, snare, snatch, snitch on, snitcher, snout, spy, squeak, squeal, squealer, steal, stool, stool pigeon, stoolie, swindle, swipe, take, talebearer, tattle, tattler, tattletale, tell on, telltale, testify against, thieve, tipster, turn informer, walk off with, whistle-blower