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stool·ie

 (sto͞o′lē)
n. Slang
A stool pigeon.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.stoolie - someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
betrayer, blabber, informer, squealer, rat - one who reveals confidential information in return for money
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stoolie

noun
Slang. One who gives incriminating information about others:
Informal: rat, tipster.
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The unsealed indictment also includes a subsequent email by Stone calling Credico a "rat" and a "stoolie," for ignoring his suggestion and then threatening to take Credico's service dog away from him, and telling him to "prepare to die."
To maintain credibility in the scientific community, she also needs to remain unbiased, to "offer an independent opinion on things," and not become an advocate for a particular stakeholder group or solution, or a "stoolie for some agency."
Then i noticed that it sat above one that begins: "little Miss Muffet/arose from her tuffet/to box with the old kangaroo..." and diagonally opposite another that kicks off: "lickle Miss Julie/Kotch pon ar stoolie,/an nyam wan ripe bombay..." all, it turns out, are international (american, australian and Jamaican respectively) variations on the rhyme about little Miss Muffet sitting on her tuffet and eating her curds and whey - which might not make a whole lot more sense but at least sounds familiar to an english adult ear.every one of these verses, incidentally, has been illustrated by someone different.
The other prisoners realize at this point that there is an informant, a "stoolie," among them.
A "devoted stoolie,'' Anthony Spano sat with three of his friends on the steps of the DCU Center on Commercial Street about an hour before the show began.