stoolie

Example Sentences

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"I was becoming this unsavory rat, this informant, this turncoat, this stoolie," he said, noting that it "was like committing suicide ... renouncing everything" when he turned his back on his former colleagues.

From US News • Jun. 30, 2016

By the 1840s, the term was interchangeable with police informant, and by the 1920s, it had been shortened to stoolie.

From Slate • Dec. 7, 2011

With 150 contributions about crime writers, cops, critics, scientists, ex-spies, a stoolie, a butler who didn't do it and many others, Winn's concordance is elegant, entertaining and encyclopedic.

From Time Magazine Archive

He knows the cop with the abused arches, the complaisant heiress, the slick saloon proprietor, the sick comic, the sullen stoolie who talks in the guarded whisper of cell block and exercise yard.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Crow's going to jail," Otis Amber wailed, "and all you do is pat yourself on the back for not being a stoolie."

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin