canaries

• betrayers
• blabbermouths
• blabbers
• collaborators
• deep throats
• finks
• gossipers
• gossips
• informants
• informers
• leakers
• narks
• notifiers
• rat finks
• rats
• snitchers
• snitches
• snoopers
• snoops
• spies
• squealers
• stool pigeons
• stoolies
• talebearers
• tattlers
• tattletales
• telltales
• whistle-blowers

• noun
  1. A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.
  2. Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour.
  3. A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour.
  4. A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands.
  5. A lively dance, possibly of Spanish origin (also called canaries).
  6. Any test subject, especially an inadvertent or unwilling one. (From the mining practice of using canaries to detect dangerous gases.).
  7. A value placed in memory such that it will be the first data corrupted by a buffer overflow, allowing the program to identify and recover from it.
  8. A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer.
  9. An informer or snitch; a squealer.
  10. A (usually yellow) capsule of the short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital/pentobarbitone (Nembutal).
  11. A yellow sticker of unroadworthiness.
• verb
  1. To dance nimbly (as in the canary dance).
  2. To inform or snitch, to betray secrets, especially about illegal activities.

• The pet store sells a variety of birds, including canaries.
• She loves to sing along with her canaries, which brighten up the room.
• The canaries in the garden chirped happily as the sun rose.
• The old miners used to bring canaries with them to detect dangerous gases in the mines.
• He kept a few canaries in a cage by the window for their beautiful songs.

narks

rats

talebearers

rat finks

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