Sarbut is British regional slang for a police informer — someone who rats to the cops. It's the kind of word you'd hear in tight-knit working-class communities where grassing someone up was considered a serious social transgression. While less widespread than snitch or grass, sarbut carries the same weight of distrust and contempt. Being called a sarbut in the wrong neighbourhood meant your credibility was finished.
Nobody trusted him after that — word got round he was a sarbut and that was that.
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(UK, regional) A police informer.
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