Meaning & use
grasser
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In British slang, an informer who reports someone's wrongdoing to the police or an authority.
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The other prisoners shunned him once they learned he was a grasser.
Nobody trusted the new recruit after rumors spread that he was a grasser.
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This term derives from British criminal slang "to grass," meaning to inform on someone, possibly from Cockney rhyming slang "grasshopper" for "copper."
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