Example Sentences

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For many years "peaching" was underworld slang for denouncing someone to the authorities.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2016

They went on with the good work of peaching on Kulaks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most Saar police at once went Nazi, strove to keep their jobs by peaching on fellow policemen whom they claimed were non-Nazi.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meanwhile convicted spies Mr. & Mrs. Robert Gordon Switz of East Orange, N. J. were "exempted from punishment" by the French Government in return for their voluble peaching on the other spies.

From Time Magazine Archive

I appreciate pluck and grit as much as anybody, I guess, though I do think you ran it pretty close, peaching on a pal after you'd lifted the jewels.

From The Brass Bowl by Vance, Louis Joseph