The phrase "narc on you" is correct and usable in written English, though it is informal and slang.
It can be used when referring to the act of informing on someone, typically in a context involving wrongdoing or rule-breaking.
Example: "If you keep breaking the rules, I might have to narc on you to the teacher."
Alternatives: "inform on you" or "rat you out."
But if you work for the US Air Force let's say, defending the security of a massive stockpile of nuclear missiles doing drugs is only fun until one of your fellow airmen narcs on you.
The way people carry on, you'd think that consenting to one gave the narcs the right to knock down your door in the middle of the night and manhandle you into a Black Maria, thenceforth to be driven to a subterranean vault where you will be struck around the face, deprived of sleep and questioned incessantly by a brace of bad detectives by the light of a sinisterly swinging, naked lightbulb.
So there are jokes at the expense of albinos and people with Boston accents — "You a narc?" one of Mullins's brothers asks Ashburn, but of course she doesn't understand him because he doesn't pronounce the "r" and she hasn't seen "Ted," "The Departed" or "Good Will Hunting" — and halfhearted race- and class-based gags.
Keanu Reeves plays Bob Arctor, a narc on the verge of a crack-up.
Keanu Reeves plays Bob Arctor, an undercover narc on the verge of a crack-up.
Even while becoming a Teen Beat sensation in the late '80s playing the angst-y narc on "21 Jump Street" on television, it was Mr. Depp's extracurricular reputation — for unsolicited hotel room renovation and for breaking the hearts of doe-eyed gamins — that made him a poster boy for delinquency.
But even that can be dangerous because sometimes people narc on us.
"One of my set rules for myself is that I don't blow the whistle until the cops come," Rieger tells me, adding, "I'm not there to narc on people".
Police are anticipating the crew to sell what they stole not to Joe Public but to stores and restaurants and are asking for these businesses to be wary of what they buy and to narc on the thieves.
He explains, "there was this game called Narc, where you played a DEA agent, and bad guys on PCP would throw cars at you.
