nark

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The bashing of the nark was about to begin.

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  1. noun Slang Variant of narc.
  2. noun An informer, especially a police informer.
  3. intransitive verb To be an informer.

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  • And on Mr. Hitchings goes, until Hemingway borrows cojones from Spanish and the British borrow nark from the Gypsies to describe someone who finks to the police. —  New York Sun - All Articles
  • But there is another side of him that everybody sees on a regular basis, where he is a real nark to refs.
  • We could understand how such a tidal wave could nark off the prim April O'Neil, but quite how water damages a turtle is beyond us. —  Computer And Video Games
  • The nark-alarms in stations and colleges consciously echo the awareness campaigns of the second world war, when similar posters urged the public to look out for fellows with bratwurst in their sandwich boxes. —  Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
  • I just hope he dosen't pick a fight with his 6foot 2inch cellmate and get beaten to death like what happens when you dont rat on yourself and the put an undercover nark in his cell. —  Infowars
 

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  1. Perhaps from Romany nāk, nose; see nas- in Indo-European roots.
 

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