All narks synonyms

noun narks

• bait — Bait is food which you put on a hook or in a trap in order to catch fish or animals.
• sleuth — a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
• reporter — a person who reports.
• agent — A chemical that has a particular effect or is used for a particular purpose can be referred to as a particular kind of agent.
• spy — a person employed by a government to obtain secret information or intelligence about another, usually hostile, country, especially with reference to military or naval affairs.
• police officer — any policeman or policewoman; patrolman or patrolwoman.
• private eye — a private detective.
• informer — a person who informs against another, especially for money or other reward.
• private investigator — private detective. Abbreviation: PI, p.i., P.I.
• prosecutor — Law. prosecuting attorney. a person, as a complainant or chief witness, instigating prosecution in a criminal proceeding.
• announcer — An announcer is someone who introduces programmes on radio or television or who reads the text of a radio or television advertisement.
• catch — If you catch a person or animal, you capture them after chasing them, or by using a trap, net, or other device.
• snare — one of the strings of gut or of tightly spiraled metal stretched across the skin of a snare drum.
• pretense — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
• booster — A booster is something that increases a positive or desirable quality.
• chicanery — Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people.
• trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• nark — a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
• chicane — a bridge or whist hand without trumps
• shill — a person who poses as a customer in order to decoy others into participating, as at a gambling house, auction, confidence game, etc.
• fink — a strikebreaker.
• snoop — to prowl or pry; go about in a sneaking, prying way.
• tail — the limitation of an estate to a person and the person’s heirs or some particular class of such heirs.
• scout — a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
• bull — A bull is a male animal of the cow family.
• shadow — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
• analyst — An analyst is a person whose job is to analyse a subject and give opinions about it.
• cop — A cop is a policeman or policewoman.
• eavesdropper — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
• constable — In Britain and some other countries, a constable is a police officer of the lowest rank.
• gumshoe — Slang. a detective.
• dick — A man's dick is his penis.
• fed — field emission display
• at the end of one's rope — a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
• sergeant — Ancient Eboracum. a city in North Yorkshire, in NE England, on the Ouse: the capital of Roman Britain; cathedral.
• flatfoot — Pathology. a condition in which the arch of the foot is flattened so that the entire sole rests upon the ground. Also, flat foot. a foot with such an arch.
• peeper — a person who peeps in an abnormally prying manner; a voyeur.
• bloodhound — A bloodhound is a large dog with a very good sense of smell. Bloodhounds are often used to find people or other animals by following their scent.
• shoofly — a child's rocker having a seat supported between two boards cut and painted to resemble animals.
• shamus — a detective.
• squealer — a somewhat prolonged, sharp, shrill cry, as of pain, fear, or surprise.
• rat — any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
• snake — any of numerous limbless, scaly, elongate reptiles of the suborder Serpentes, comprising venomous and nonvenomous species inhabiting tropical and temperate areas.
• snitch — to snatch or steal; pilfer.
• tattletale — a talebearer or informer, especially among children.
• weasel — any small carnivore of the genus Mustela, of the family Mustelidae, having a long, slender body and feeding chiefly on small rodents.
• whistle-blower — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
• scab — the incrustation that forms over a sore or wound during healing.
• canary — Canaries are small yellow birds which sing beautifully and are often kept as pets.
• tipster — a person who makes a business of furnishing tips, as for betting or speculation.