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narc | informant | Synonyms |

Narc is a synonym of informant.


As nouns the difference between narc and informant

is that narc is (slang) a narcotics squad police officer or narc can be (slang) (spy) while informant is one who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.

As a verb narc

is (slang) or narc can be (slang) to suffer from impaired judgment due to nitrogen narcosis (eg while scuba diving).

narc

English

(wikipedia narc)

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of "narcotics officer".

Noun

(en noun)
  • (slang) A narcotics squad police officer.

    • Etymology 2

    Alternate spelling of .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) (spy)

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (slang)
    • “If you narc on me, I’ll rip your arms off”, said Tim to his little brother, as he passed him a cigarette.

    See also

    * stool pigeon

    Etymology 3

    Short for "narcosis", etymologically related to the first etymology (from "narcotics officer") but instead referring to the medical condition of nitrogen narcosis rather than to narcotics.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (slang) To suffer from impaired judgment due to nitrogen narcosis (e.g. while scuba diving).

    • Anagrams

    *

    informant

    English

    (wikipedia informant)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.
  • (linguistics) A native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant demonstrates native pronunciation, provides grammaticality judgments regarding linguistic well-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other important contextual information.
  • * 1977 , A. E. Kibrik, The methodology of field investigations in linguistics
    • The only material the linguist has to begin with are the informant' s grammatical utterances in the target language pronounced arbitrarily in a natural or assigned communicative situation or stimulated artificially by the investigator.
  • * 2003 , Sergei Nirenburg, H. L. Somers, Yorick Wilks, Readings in machine translation (page 116)
    • The informant learns his language by formal training and, more importantly, by constant exposure to its use. He cannot repeat to the linguist what he has never seen or heard.

    Synonyms

    * (one who relays confidential information ): blabber, gossip, narc, stool pigeon, tattletale, rat, canary, snitch, stoolie, squealer, grass, bigmouth * See also

    See also

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