snitching n.
informing; also as adj.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 266: snitch to impeach, or betray your accomplices, is termed snitching upon them. […] an informer, or tale-bearer, in general is called a snitch, or a snitching rascal, in which sense snitching is synonymous with nosing, or coming it. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Sl. Dict. 299: snitching is synonymous in thieves’ slang with ‘nosing’ and ‘peaching’. | |
| Aus. Sl. Dict. 77: Snitching, Nosing, and Peaching are synonymous terms, which mean turning traitor, giving information to the police, etc. | |
 | Courier-Jrnl (Louisville, KY) 7 May 3/5: ‘Snitching’ is the capital offense in the prison. For it ostracism and every form of social degredation possible [is] to be practiced by the ‘snitcher’s’ fellow prisoners. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Amer. Prisons and Prison Customs 303: Thus did one of the earliest reform schools go on record as intolerant of ‘snitching,’ and of government through stool pigeons. | |
| World I Never Made 207: What a little stinker his snitching brother was [...] he’d pound every ounce of snitching out of the dumb little punk. | |
| High Sierra in Four Novels (1984) 288: They thought he was getting favours for snitching. | |
| ‘Jiver’s Bible’ in Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive. | |
| Scene (1996) 14: Snitchin bastard. | |
| Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 156: They got the righteous dads and the so-called bads / and plenty of the snitching kind. | |
| Silence of the Lambs (1991) 125: Snitching wouldn’t give him enough of a chance to show off. | |
| (con. 1975) Monster (1994) 10: If anybody get caught for this, ride the beef, ’cause ain’t no snitchin’ here. | |
| Corner (1998) 65: As for snitching, that part of the code is also dead and buried. | |
| ‘Life Is 2009’ 🎵 You need to take my advice and stop snitchin fool / Or you can close yo’ ears, and run yo’ mouth. |
In compounds
a full moon, which ‘snitches’ criminals.
| Prison Community (1940) 335/2: snitching moon, n. A full moon, making detection of burglars easier. |
an informer.
| Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 266: An informer, or tale-bearer [....] is called a snitch, or a snitching rascal. |