narc
noun/nɑrk/
Frequency rank: #18,558 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
a person who informs on others, especially to authority figures; an informer or snitch (slang).
Example sentence
When the students found out he had told the teacher about the hidden phone, they called him a total narc for the rest of the week.
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