Meaning & use
stoolie
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an informer, especially one who secretly reports wrongdoing to the authorities
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The other inmates suspected he was a stoolie working with the guards.
Nobody trusted him after word spread that he was a police stoolie.
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Short for 'stool pigeon,' an older term for a decoy or informer, likely from the practice of tying a pigeon to a stool as a lure.
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