snitch
/snɪt͡ʃ/
snitch verb: to inform on someone, especially in betrayal of others.
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Verb
snitch (third-person singular simple present snitches, present participle snitching, simple past and past participle snitched)
- To inform on someone, especially in betrayal of others.
- Synonyms:
- drop a dime
- To contact or cooperate with the police for any reason.
- To steal, quickly and quietly.
- Besides, I shall require your help in snitching the pig. But I was forgetting. You are not abreast of that side of our activities, are you? Emsworth has a pig. The Duke wants it.1939, P. G. Wodehouse, Uncle Fred in the Springtime
- Synonyms:
- filch
Noun
snitch (plural snitches)
- A thief.
- Synonyms:
- filcher
- An informer, one who betrays their group.
- A fuck nigga, that's that shit I don't like
A snitch nigga, that's that shit I don't like2012, Chief Keef, “I Don't Like”
- Synonyms:
- grass
- A fuck nigga, that's that shit I don't like
- A nose.
- 'Yah, I wouldn't git a second-'and dress at a pawnbroker's!'
'Garn!' said Liza indignantly. 'I'll swipe yer over the snitch if yer talk ter me. [...] "1897, W.S. Maugham, Liza of Lambeth, chapter 1 - He added in conclusion that he strongly disliked the police coming and sticking its nose into his affairs and, since the horror which such actions inspired in him was not far from making him wish to vomit, he extracted from his pocket a silken square of the colour of the lilac flower (the one that...1960, Barbara Wright (tr.), Zazie in the metro, Penguin Classics, translation of Zazie dans le métro by Raymond Queneau, published 2001, →ISBN, page 96
- Synonyms:
- schnozz
- 'Yah, I wouldn't git a second-'and dress at a pawnbroker's!'
- A tiny morsel.
- "He pays for the food you eat," said the woman.
"Yeah," said the boy. "And I earn every snitch doing everything ever gets done around here."1963, Jack Schaefer, Monte Walsh, page 3
- "He pays for the food you eat," said the woman.
- A ball used in the sport of Quidditch: the Golden Snitch.
snitch meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Nepali
snitch in Tamil
- தகவலாளி
snitch in Urdu
- مخبر
snitch in Malayalam
- to snitch
- ഒറ്റുക oṟṟuka
snitch in Nepali
- to snitch, fink, squeal on someone
- पोल्नु polnu
More languagesFewer languages
- snitch in Indonesian
- kutil, util
- snitch in Myanmar
- ပုဆိန်ရိုး pu.hcinrui:
Examples of snitch in a sentence
- Bluenoze: Blow your nose to clear your snitch of whatever it is you've been snorting and read the postings again.1999 September 27, "billy", “Re: Babies Having Babies”, in uk.media.tv.misc (Usenet):
- Question: do benign bacteria live in one's snitch and keep the other, nastier ones at bay ?1999 March 26, G Greenway, “Re: aah-cho!!”, in alt.gothic (Usenet):
- Have a perpetual dew drop hanging from your snitch2001 July 27, catmandoo, “Re: Please help me to be 'correct'.”, in uk.local.isle-of-wight (Usenet):
Synonyms of snitch
Forms of snitch
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | snitches |
| present participle | snitching |
| past participle | snitched |
| past | snitched |
| Noun | |
| plural | snitches |
Origin of snitch
Origin uncertain. Perhaps an alteration of Middle English snacche (“a trap, snare”), snacchen (“to seize (prey)”, whence modern English snatch). Compare also Middle English snik snak (“a sudden blow, snap”). Alternatively, perhaps from a dialectal variant of sneak, from Middle English sniken, from Old English snīcan (“to creep; crawl”). More at sneak, snatch.
Words formed from snitch
Phrases with snitch
Words that rhyme with snitch
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Questions about snitch
- What does snitch mean?
- Snitch means to inform on someone, especially in betrayal of others.
- What is snitch in Tamil?
- Snitch in Tamil is தகவலாளி. See Snitch meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use snitch in a sentence?
- Bluenoze: Blow your nose to clear your snitch of whatever it is you've been snorting and read the postings again.
- What part of speech is snitch?
- Snitch can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce snitch?
- Snitch is pronounced /snɪt͡ʃ/.
- What is the past tense of snitch?
- The past tense of snitch is snitched.
Words near snitch in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: snitch (page history and authors); snitch (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); snitch (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ഒറ്റുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); पोल्नु (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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