copper's nark

1. 1.

   an informer or spy working for the police

   Synonymsnark

   Broaderinformer

   United Kingdom

Questions about copper's nark

What does copper's nark mean?

copper's nark means "an informer or spy working for the police".

What is another word for copper's nark?

Close synonyms include nark. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is copper's nark a common word?

copper's nark is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.