| 释义 |
sarbut local slang.|ˈsɑːbət|
Also sarbot, sarbutt.
[App. a proper name.]
In Birmingham: a police informer. Also as v. intr. = inform v. 7 b.
[1896Birmingham Daily Mail 17 Apr. 2/5 ‘Old Sarbot’ says that..the Corporation have no legal powers to superannuate them from the rates.] 1897Ibid. 5 Aug. 3/1, I knew him as one of those men who were engaged by the police for the purpose of putting up robberies and then giving information about them... They are called touts, ‘sarbuts’ or something else. 1928F. C. Taylor Language of Lags in Word-Lore Oct. 122 Should one of the fraternity turn informer, he is for ever afterwards known as a nark, a sarbot, a copper. Ibid. 124 May be she'll sarbot to the D. who clobbered the kids. 1969R. Busby Robbery Blue iii. 24 Your sarbut's story wasn't good enough... We were fooled. 1976― New Face in Hell viii. 110 The hand-picked city crime squad..recruited their ‘sarbuts’, the city slang for informants. 1978Daily Mail 25 Jan. 12/2 In Birmingham an informer..is a ‘sarbutt’. |