deep throat

noun

Definition of deep throatnext
as in informant
a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing an accountant who had turned deep throat, he was the first to leak the information that the company had been cooking its books for years

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  1. informant
  2. informer
  3. canary
  4. stool pigeon
Noun
  • The informant told police that’s where the hitman was handed an envelope of cash.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
  • The task force is reportedly staffing up with officers who specialize in recruiting informants, intelligence analysis, cyber operations and covert influence campaigns.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of informant
Noun
  • One of State Security’s main goals, as well as a central source of its strength, is turning civilians into informers.
    — Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 19 May 2026
  • And so every regime invests in having student informers.
    — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
Definition of informer
Noun
  • Kevin Tubbs grew up in a comfortable suburb outside Omaha, Nebraska, in a canary-yellow ranch house filled with dogs.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
  • Carolina Jessamine This vine with sweet-scented, canary-yellow flowers in the spring is native to the southern United States.
    — Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 9 July 2026
Definition of canary
Noun
  • Once an unconscious stool pigeon, always an unconscious stool pigeon.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Russo turned stool pigeon within a month of his November 2017 arrest for selling a kilo of cocaine to an undercover agent.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2025
Definition of stool pigeon
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“Deep throat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deep%20throat. Accessed 11 Aug. 2026.

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