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/Sounds like "ohr" (as in "oh") + "TEE" (as in "tea") + "bah" (as in "bar")/

Meaning

In Argentina, a snitch or someone so rigidly rule-following that they report everything to authority and ruin the fun for everyone else. The kind of person nobody in the neighborhood trusts with any information.

Examples

Your neighbor is such a snitch, he called the cops over the noise.

Don't be a narc and just enjoy the party.

Regional synonyms

Turkey in Mexico, from the Nahuatl word "huexolotl", the bird the Aztecs domesticated thousands of years before the world knew about it. Today it's eaten at Christmas, in mole, and is essential to Mexican cuisine.