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Meanings of nark in English

Catalan
agent de narcòtics

A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.

        agent de narcòtics
        Portuguese
        importunar
        Catalan
        amoïnar
        Spanish
        provocar

        To make someone rather angry or impatient; to cause annoyance.

            importunar
            Spanish
            soplon

            An informer or spy working for the police.

                  soplon
                  Usage of nark in English
                  1
                  A study has shown people love to nark on their workmates.
                  Radio NZ
                  2
                  My men have orders to nark first and subspeck afterward.
                  The Door Into Summer
                  3
                  The resultant indiscipline may nark some investors.
                  Reuters
                  4
                  You're a nark for that fellow Crewe.
                  The Hampstead Mystery
                  5
                  Rotten, copper's nark! And then he died.
                  King Rat
                  6
                  Oh, I say, ain't it a blessed nark to the men us going to have a vote?
                  Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
                  7
                  Sasha and Leonid were immediately assigned a nark, who loitered exactly ten steps away from them, wherever they went.
                  Metro 2034
                  8
                  She told the court inmates never told her they had been beaten because they did not want to nark.
                  Radio NZ
                  9
                  He said his client had given evidence for the Crown and in prison terms "he was a nark".
                  Radio NZ
                  10
                  So it looks to me as if he has turned nark and Crewe has put him on to watch you.
                  The Hampstead Mystery
                  11
                  He says he suffered from sustained bullying from colleagues on the West Coast, who called him a nark because he complained about their behaviour.
                  Radio NZ
                  12
                  Somewhere, he conjectured, in warmth and safety, Henry Wiggin, the copper's nark, was perfectly enjoying his supper of fried fish and 'taters and stout.
                  Nights in London
                  13
                  Here it is, the list that people in the know love to nark about and those outside the know use to be in the know.
                  The Irish Times
                  14
                  He'll be a bit narked at having wasted a whole bloomin' day.
                  The Confessions of a Beachcomber
                  15
                  To have them narks under my very roof, abrazenin' it out!
                  A Girl Among the Anarchists
                  16
                  Sure they're narked we jumped into their system and raised a little hell.
                  The Naked God
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                  Nark through the time