stoolie n.
(orig. US) an informer, also vb. (see cite 1971).
![]() | Seattle Star (WA) 12 Aug. 6/7: The informer, the stoolie, the cat-eyed, slippery, soft-footed Judas. | |
![]() | Green Ice (1988) 32: Talk foolish over the phone – I’ll spot the good words. Some stoolie might happen to be listening in. | |
![]() | Gangster Stories Oct. n.p.: Don’t get the idea that I was playing stoolie for anybody. | ‘Snowbound’ in|
![]() | Black Mask Stories (2010) 225/2: They never caught him. They picked up that dope from stoolies. | ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in|
![]() | Really the Blues 249: One day some stoolie tipped off the cops that Lil was selling hop. | |
![]() | Harp in South 98: ‘Yer stinking stoolie’, remarked Flo. | |
![]() | DAUL 213/1: Stoolo. See Stool pigeon. | et al.|
![]() | Monkey On My Back (1954) 131: Patrick had screamed that Hector was a ‘stoolie’ and a ‘rat’. | |
![]() | Imabelle 52: We let you operate because you’re a stoolie. | |
![]() | Scene (1996) 178: Something funny’s going on, that little stoolie not wanting any drugs. | |
![]() | Rage in Harlem (1969) 53: We let you operate because you’re a stooly. | |
![]() | S.R.O. (1998) 361: ‘I stoolie for Ginsburg. I tell him who’s doubling up so he can charge them extra’. | |
![]() | Friends of Eddie Coyle 133: You’re telling me I gotta turn stoolie permanent. | |
![]() | Fort Apache, The Bronx 10: A stoolie had already made the three guys, supplying names, addresses. | |
![]() | Let It Bleed 98: All good policemen had them; anyone who wanted to get anywhere had them: grasses, stoolies, snitches. | |
![]() | Indep. Rev. 2 Feb. 7: If I had asked Ronald Reagan: ‘Were you a stoolie for the FBI in Hollywood?’ he would have told me nothing. | |
![]() | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 17/2: big stoolie, the n. an inmate with an especially bad reputation for being an informer. | |
![]() | Alphaville (2011) 315: This jerk-off stoolie goes off about you two guys. |