Definitions for nark

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Spelling: [nahrk]

IPA: /nɑrk/

Nark is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in nark (aknr).

Definitions for nark

noun

1. British Slang. a stool pigeon or informer.
2. Australian Slang. an annoying person.
3. narc.
4. a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.

verb (used without object)

1. British Slang. to act as a police informer or stool pigeon.
2. Australian Slang. to become annoyed.

Origin of nark

First recorded in 1860-65, nark is from the Romany word nāk nose

Examples for nark

That the "nark," with his mean tricks, is a nuisance to wandering beggars is seen in a very short time.

By the way, the sight of a pepper-box in a lodging-house kitchen is always a sure sign that the man behind it is a "nark."

It was the sole commandment that ran there:—'Thou shalt not nark.'

All true wanderers hate him; even the drunken, domineering grinder is treated with civility in a house where beggars see a "nark."

He resolved to depart from his evil ways and to become a nark—a copper's nark—which is a police spy, or informer.

nark, a person in the pay of the police; a common informer; one who gets his living by laying traps for publicans, &c.

Another "nark" was a drunken drover, who left a saucepan on the fire while he went out for a drink.

A hail came from Jackson, second in command of the nark, at once.

"nark (p. 091) the doin's, nark it," he cried and fired his rifle.

The searchlight from the nark was playing full upon the scene.