Definitions
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- noun An
informer providing substantial quantities ofinformation oncriminal orterrorist activities to thepolice .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a police informer who implicates many people
Etymologies
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Examples
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Anderson has been named by a "supergrass" convicted of conspiracy to murder who will give evidence next week. marcpen: A supergrass is a high level ex-gang member who 'turns Queen's Evidence' to become a prosecution witness.
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The case is based around so-called supergrass evidence supplied by Newtownabbey brothers David Stewart (38) and Robert Stewart
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Were they at the camp with 'supergrass' Mohammed Junad Barbar, the key witness for the prosecution in the current ongoing terrorism trial codenamed Crevice thwarted fertiliser-bomb vehicle plot at the Old Bailey?
7/7 & the 7/7 Bradford riots - connected? Rachel 2006
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Were they at the camp with 'supergrass' Mohammed Junad Barbar, the key witness for the prosecution in the current ongoing terrorism trial codenamed Crevice thwarted fertiliser-bomb vehicle plot at the Old Bailey?
Archive 2006-04-01 Rachel 2006
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What are your views of the reports that Mohammed Siddique Khan met Mohammed Junaid Babar the key 'supergrass' prosecution witness in the current 'Operation Crevice' trial ?
M15 Chief Quits Rachel 2006
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Families of the July 7 victims hit out today after it emerged that an al-Qaida 'supergrass' who set up a training camp attended by the mastermind of the London bombings has been freed after only four and a half years in prison.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Mr Ervine told Spotlight that a senior north Belfast loyalist's apparent decision to become a "supergrass" could harden the position.
BBC News - Home 2010
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Brian Ervine, the new leader of the political party associated with the UVF, told Spotlight that a senior north Belfast loyalist's apparent decision to become a "supergrass" could harden the position.
BBC News - Home 2010
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Along with 'supergrass' Mark Burcombe and Noel Dillon, who has since killed himself, the friends had been drinking in Brown's Tandragee flat when Andrew spoke derogatorily about UVF commander Richard Jameson, who had been gunned down by the LVF two weeks earlier.
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Snarfangel: Anderson has been named by a "supergrass" convicted of conspiracy to murder who will give evidence next week.
whichbe commented on the word supergrass
A rat.
January 1, 2009