TELL ON meaning: Report someone's wrongdoing to authority

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tell on)

▸ verb: (usually childish) To inform on, to rat out; to tell a person in authority that someone else has done something wrong.
▸ verb: To cause visible strain to.

Similar:

betray, snitch, denounce, give away, shit, shop, stag, rat, peach, grass, more...

Opposite:

rat, snitch, peach

Types:

incriminate, expose, betray, reveal, unmask, disclose, divulge, more...

Phrases:

to tell on, Tell Me on a Sunday, tell on someone, tell on me, more...

Adjectives:

tell-all, pretend, moot, emulate, fake, ape, mock, sham, foist, telltale, spoof

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