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Snitch is slang and is defined as to steal or tattle.

(verb)

An example of snitch is for a child to tell on his sibling for stealing the cookies.

The definition of a snitch is slang for a tattletale.

(noun)

An example of a snitch is a child who always tells when her friends do something wrong.

See snitch in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb

Slang to steal (usually something of little value); pilfer

Origin: < 18th-c. thieves' slang: orig. sense “a nose”

intransitive verb

Slang to be an informer; tattle (on)

noun

Slang an informer

also snitcher

See snitch in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb snitched, snitch·ing, snitch·es

verb, transitive

To steal (something, usually something of little value); pilfer. See Synonyms at steal.

verb, intransitive

To turn informer: He snitched on his comrades.

noun

A thief.
An informer.

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snitchˈer noun

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