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snitch-jacket

verb

Etymology

snitch + jacket; see jacket (“(slang) a police record”).

  1. derived from jaque
  2. borrowed from jacquet
  3. compounded as snitch-jacket — “snitch + jacket”

Definitions

  1. To create suspicion around (a person) in a way that makes them appear to be an informer.

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