verb
- to secretly tell someone in authority about another person’s wrongdoing or rule-breaking
- to steal something quickly or secretly
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
Examples
- He snitched on his classmates for cheating on the test.
- She snitched to the teacher about who broke the window.
- The witness snitched to the police about the robbery.
- Someone snitched a cookie from the jar when no one was looking.
- They snitched some candy from the store counter.
- Nobody likes being called a snitch after they snitched on their friends.