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verb (1)

Definition of snitchnext
as in to talk
to give information (as to the authorities) about another's improper or unlawful activities he snitched on his friend because he was only looking out for himself

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snitch

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verb (2)

as in to steal
to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep snitched some paper from the office supply room for use with her printer at home

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snitch

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noun

ˈsnich How to pronounce snitch (audio)
as in informant
a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing several men were sentenced to prison based on the now-questionable testimony of a jailhouse snitch

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Recent Examples of snitch
Verb
Time off hoarding and snitching ensued. — Erika Ebsworth-Goold, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2026 Rio’s staunch griminess, dreaming of whacking his brother and wanting to cut his nephew’s tongue for snitching, drags Fxce out into the open sea. — Matthew Ritchie, Pitchfork, 23 Feb. 2026
Noun
Only one cardinal survived—smells like a snitch—and Urban was apparently disappointed by how little the other captive cardinals had screamed. — Jane Bua, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026 Or will Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden, who endorsed the snitch site when it was launched, be a fair arbiter of charges against federal agents? — Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for snitch
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snitch
  1. talk
  2. steal
  3. informant
  4. inform
  5. informer
  6. canary
  7. rat
Verb
  • For those who take pride in their pouty lips (or their ability to talk their way out of just about anything), a swipe of lipstick and nothing else is a cool way to look put together without the hustle of actually putting yourself together.
    — Loren Savini, Allure, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Despite 40-plus years of dazzling red-carpet moments—and two decades since becoming the first Arab designer on the official Paris haute couture calendar—in real life Elie Saab is still more comfortable letting his runway do the talking for him.
    — Tina Isaac-Goizé, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of talk
Verb
  • Elsewhere, stoles stole the show, particular those draped languidly over the shoulder or fashioned as cummerbunds.
    — Andrea Zendejas, Vogue, 4 Sep. 2026
  • On multiple occasions, law enforcement officers have used Flock footage to identify and ultimately arrest people accused of stealing from Ulta Beauty stores.
    — Kara McGrath, Allure, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of steal
Noun
  • Remember those jailhouse informants who claimed Kezer had confessed?
    — Peter Henderson, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Detectives relied on confidential informants to bust the operation – an informant who purchased drugs from Robinson blew the operation open.
    — Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of informant
Verb
  • This list is informed by The Athletic’s newsroom — including David Ornstein — and their reporting in the last days of the window.
    — The Athletic UK Staff, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Any business, town or development group needs this data informing their decisions.
    — Twila Moon, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of inform
Noun
  • One of State Security’s main goals, as well as a central source of its strength, is turning civilians into informers.
    — Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 19 May 2026
  • And so every regime invests in having student informers.
    — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
Definition of informer
Noun
  • Dollywood thus became our Disneyland — from the Tennessee Tornado to the Wild Eagle to the Mystery Mine with the dead canary collapsing before the big drop.
    — Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Interspersed throughout the myriad activations of Monterey Car Week is the most important facet for the collector community, and that’s the array of auctions that serve as either an optimistic barometer reading or an ailing canary in the coal mine.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of canary
Noun
  • There were swarms of flies and numerous rats at, near or on the bodies.
    — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2026
  • But human colonization several hundred years ago introduced predators such as cats and rats that wiped out most of the kakapo.
    — Adela Suliman, NBC news, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of rat

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“Snitch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snitch. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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