Definition of Supergrass
1. Noun. A police informer who implicates many people.
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Generic synonyms: Betrayer, Blabber, Informer, Rat, Squealer
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Literary usage of Supergrass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Battle for Ulster: A Study of Internal Security by Tom F. Baldy (1997)
""SUPER-GRASS" (INFORMERS) Complicating this situation is the use of the "supergrass,"
or informer, to obtain evidence.30 Frustrated by the Provisional IRA's ..."
2. Terrorist Group Profiles (1993)
"Numerous arrests of INLA terrorists and testimony by "supergrass" informers ...
Problems in permitting the use of "supergrass" testimony in court, however, ..."
3. Prison Conditions in the United Kingdom by Allyson Collins, Haywood Burns (1992)
"At the time of our visit, one prisoner was kept in isolation and housed in a
separate unit because she is an informant, or "supergrass. ..."
4. Protecting Children in Substance-Abusing Families by Vickie Kropenske, Judy Howard (1995)
"PCP is known on the street by various names, including "angel
dust," "crystal," "supergrass," "killer weed," "KJ," "sherms," "embalming
fluid," "hog," and ..."
5. The Supply of Illicit Drugs to the United States: The MMICC Report, 1995 by Paul V. Daly (1998)
"PCP has been sold under numerous street names including angel dust, crystal, hog,
supergrass, killer joints, ozone, wack, embalming fluid, and rocket fuel, ..."
6. Drugs of Abuseedited by Carol Gibson edited by Carol Gibson (1997)
"Phencyclidine, more commonly known as PCP, is illicitly marketed under a number
of other names including Angel Dust, supergrass, Killer Weed, ..."
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