Synonyms of the word

fink

• n. (chiefly US, slang) A contemptible person; an informer; a strikebreaker.
• v. (chiefly US, slang) To betray a trust; to inform on.

acknowledge

• v. (transitive) To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in.
• v. To own or recognize in a particular quality, character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority…
• v. To be grateful of (e.g. a benefit or an favour).
• v. To notify receipt, as of a letter.
• v. To own as genuine or valid; to assent to (a legal instrument) to give it validity; to avow or admit in…

admit

• v. (transitive) To allow to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration;…
• v. (transitive) To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for…
• v. (transitive) To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible…
• v. (transitive) To be capable of; to permit. In this sense, "of" may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.
• v. (intransitive) To give warrant or allowance, to grant opportunity or permission (+ of).
• v. (transitive) To allow to enter a hospital or similar facility for treatment.

betrayer

• n. Someone who betrays, or reveals confidential information; a squealer or informer.
• n. A double-crosser.

blabber

• v. To blather; to talk foolishly or incoherently.
• v. To blab; to let out a secret.
• v. (Britain, obsolete) To stick out one's tongue.
• n. A person who blabs; a tattler; a telltale.

blackleg

• n. (uncountable) Fatal cattle disease caused by the soil-borne bacteria Clostridium chauvoei; symptomatic…
• n. (countable) A person who takes the place of striking workers. A scab.
• n. (countable) A person who cheats in a game, a cheater.
• n. (colloquial) A notorious gambler.
• adj. Relating to a scab worker.

canary

• n. A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.
• n. Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour.
• n. A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour.
• n. A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands.
• n. A lively dance, possibly of Spanish origin (also called canaries).
• n. Any test subject, especially an inadvertent or unwilling one. (From the mining practice of using canaries…
• n. (computing) A value placed in memory such that it will be the first data corrupted by a buffer overflow,…
• n. (informal) A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer.
• n. (slang) An informer or snitch; a squealer.
• n. (slang) A (usually yellow) capsule of the short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital/pentobarbitone (Nembutal).
• n. (Australia, informal) A yellow sticker of unroadworthiness.
• adj. Of a light yellow colour.
• v. (intransitive) to dance nimbly (as in the canary dance).
• v. (slang) to inform or snitch, to betray secrets, especially about illegal activities.

confess

• v. To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
• v. To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
• v. (religion) To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.
• v. (religion) To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.
• v. To disclose or reveal.

informer

• n. One who informs someone else about something.
• n. A person who tells authorities about improper or illegal activity.
• n. One who informs, animates, or inspires.

rat

• n. (zoology) A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus.
• n. (informal) A term indiscriminately applied to numerous members of several rodent families (e.g. voles…
• n. (informal) A person who is known for betrayal; a scoundrel; a quisling.
• n. (informal) An informant or snitch.
• n. (slang) A person who routinely spends time at a particular location.
• n. Scab.
• n. (north-west London, slang) Vagina.
• n. A wad of shed hair used as part of a hairstyle.
• v. (usually with “on” or “out”) To betray someone and tell their secret to an authority or an enemy; to turn…
• v. (of a dog, etc.) To kill rats.
• n. (regional) A scratch or a score.
• n. (nautical, regional) A place in the sea with rapid currents and crags where a ship is likely to be torn…
• v. (regional) To scratch or score.
• v. (regional, rare, obsolete) To tear, rip, rend.

scab

• n. An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
• n. (colloquial or obsolete) The scabies.
• n. The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
• n. Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused…
• n. Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
• n. (phytopathology) Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants,…
• n. (founding) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking…
• n. A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
• n. (offensive, slang) A worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker.
• v. (intransitive) To become covered by a scab or scabs.
• v. (intransitive) To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin.
• v. (transitive) To remove part of a surface (from).
• v. (intransitive) To act as a strikebreaker.
• v. (transitive, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, informal) To beg (for), to cadge or bum.

shrive

• v. (transitive and intransitive) To hear or receive a confession (of sins etc.).
• v. (transitive) To prescribe penance or absolution.
• v. (intransitive or reflexive) To confess, and receive absolution.

sneak

• n. One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
• n. A cheat; a con artist; a trickster.
• n. An informer; a tell-tale.
• n. (obsolete, cricket) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; a daisy-cutter.
• n. (US) A sneaker; a tennis shoe.
• v. (intransitive) To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who…
• v. (transitive) To take something stealthily without permission.
• v. (transitive, dated) To hide, especially in a mean or cowardly manner.
• v. (intransitive) (informal, especially with on) To inform an authority about another's misdemeanours; to…
• adj. In advance; before release to the general public.
• adj. In a stealthy or surreptitious manner.

sneaker

• n. One who sneaks.
• n. (US, Atlantic Canada) An athletic shoe with a soft, rubber sole.
• n. (Britain, dialect, archaic) A vessel of drink.
• n. (biology) sneaker male.

snitch

• v. (transitive) To steal, quickly and quietly.
• v. (transitive) To inform on, especially in betrayal of others.
• v. (slang, transitive) To contact or cooperate with the police for any reason.
• n. A thief.
• n. An informer, usually one who betrays his group.
• n. (Britain) A nose.
• n. A tiny morsel.

squeal

• n. A high-pitched sound, such as the scream of a child, or noisy worn-down brake pads.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To scream with a shrill, prolonged sound.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To give sensitive information about someone to a third party; to rat on someone.

squealer

• n. An animal that, or a person who squeals; especially a pig.
• n. (slang) an informant.
• n. The European swift.
• n. The harlequin duck.
• n. The American golden plover.

stoolie

• n. (slang) A stool pigeon.

work

• n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
• n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
• n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
• n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
• n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
• n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
• v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
• v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
• v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
• v. (transitive) To set into action.
• v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
• v. (intransitive) To ferment.
• v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
• v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
• v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
• v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
• v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
• v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to work.
• v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
• v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
• v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
• v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.