单词 | stoolie |
释义 | stoolien. U.S. slang. A police informer, a stool-pigeon. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > informing on or against > [noun] > informer > police informer setter1630 nose1789 mouchard1802 rat1818 stool-pigeon1830 knark1851 police informer1851 nark1859 telegraph1864 copper1885 sarbut1897 Noah's Ark1898 stool1906 snout1910 finger1914 policeman1923 stoolie1924 shelf1926 grass1929 grasshopper1937 grasser1950 stukach1969 supergrass1975 1924 G. C. Henderson Keys to Crookdom 419 Stool pigeon, a spy, stoolie, squealer. One who betrays his fellow crooks. 1930 ‘E. Queen’ French Powder Myst. p. xiv Without the stool-pigeon a huge percentage of felonies would remain unsolved... Our problem is to find a ‘stoolie’ who will part with the tip. 1947 Sun (Baltimore) 13 Sept. 8/1 Victor Mature..succeeds in winning sympathy for Nick against odds, overcoming even the stigma which attaches to the stoolie. 1958 ‘E. McBain’ Killer's Payoff (1960) viii. 79 The policeman trusted the stoolie's information... The stoolie trusted the policeman... Cops were averse to working with pigeons they did not know and trust. 1960 ‘E. McBain’ See them Die v. 48 You'd stool on Pepe for that rotten cop?.. A stoolie is a stoolie. 1974 T. P. Whitney tr. A. Solzhenitsyn Gulag Archipel. I. i. iii. 128 ‘There is no way out! You have to confess to everything!’ whisper the stoolies who have been planted in the cell. 1978 LaRosa & Tanenbaum Random Factor (1979) 60 When Parker put the pressure on, some stoolie somewhere would turn the man he was looking for. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1924 |
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