Definition
To identify specific people, especially people involved in misdeeds or other secretive activity.
In Context
- ""Pr'ythee, peace, man," said Avenel; "what need of naming names, so we understand each other? [...]""
- "They named names—names which I shall not record here."
- "He named names; the whole gang was rounded up, and all were sentenced to two years in reform school."
- "Sometimes it is not the journalist who is in peril but the subject of a story, and naming names can leave both the reporter and the reader uneasy."
Also Said As
- inform
- grass up
- snitch
- bewray
- blow the whistle
- clepe
- denounce
- dime
- dime out
- dob
- drop a dime
- drop a dime on someone
- finger
- fink
- fizgig
- inform
- inform on
- grass on
- grass up
- lolly up
- name names
- nark
- peach
- rat on
- rat out
- roll on
- sing
- snitch
- snitch up
- squeak
- squeal
- tattle
- tell
- tell all
- tell on
- tell tales
- tip off
- turn in
See Also
- informant