snitch, catch a snitch, ferret out, rockslide, shantytown

 Microsoft's $732 Million Mistake – Did Google Snitch?
Wall Street Journal (blog)
This is a double-edged victory for Google, however, given it is in the later stages of its own EU settlement negotiations. Microsoft's lapse, which went unnoticed for more than a year, is prompting Mr Almunia to consider putting more rigorous ...


"To those who call us snitches, I say, 'Why don't you obey the law?'"

BANG JAE-WON, who ferrets out lawbreakers in South Korea for a reward.



Rescuers work to find rockslide survivors 

Egyptian rescuers are undertaking a massive recovery operation to uncover survivors of a rockslide in a northern Cairo shantytown.

rockslide
landslide

landslide (FALLING EARTH) Show phonetics
noun [C] (ALSO landslip)
a mass of rock and earth moving suddenly and quickly down a steep slope

slide
noun [C]
1 a sudden movement of a large mass of mud (= wet earth) or rock down a hill:
a mud/rock slide
See also landslide (FALLING EARTH).

WordNet: shantytown

Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.
The noun has one meaning:


Meaning #1: a city district inhabited by people living in huts and shantiesn. - 以臨時搭蓋的陋屋為主的地區

n. - ぼろ家地区, 貧民街, その住民

shan・ty¹

 

━━ n. （仮）小屋.
 shanty・town　━━ n. スラム街.

ferret out
Uncover and bring to light by searching, as in Sandy was a superb reporter, tireless in ferreting out whatever facts were needed for her story. This expression alludes to hunting with ferrets, weasel-like animals formerly used to drive rabbits out of their burrows. [c. 1600]

snitch
(snĭch) Slang.

v., snitched, snitch·ing, snitch·es. v.tr.
To steal (something, usually something of little value); pilfer. See synonyms at steal.

v.intr.
To turn informer: He snitched on his comrades.

n.

1. A thief.
2. An informer.

[Origin unknown.]

snitcher snitch'er n.

catch a snitch
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