NARC

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NARC, narc or nark may refer to:

• Narcotic, an addictive drug derived from opium
• NARC (song), a song on Interpol's album Antics
• Narc, an Orc-like character in the parody Bored of the Rings
• Narc (film), a 2002 film about dirty cops involved in policing the drug trade
• Narc (narcotics), a term for a narcotics agent (including undercover) or police informant or simply a person who notifies authorities of illicit activity, betraying someone in the process. In the past couple decades it has become a term to mean a tattletale.
• NARC (video game), a 1988 arcade game and its 2005 update.
• NARC (magazine), a music magazine based in Newcastle, UK.
• Party Pooper
• Colin Curtis

• nitrogen narcosis, or getting "narc'd", is the altered state of mind commonly experienced by divers.

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• Navan Animal Rescue Corporation, a not-for-profit rescue organization in Ottawa, Ontario, www.narc-charity.ca
• National Advertising Review Council, a US organization providing self-regulatory services to the American advertising industry
• National Rainbow Coalition, a Kenyan political party
• Non-Automatic Relay Center, formerly a station in a military communications network where teletype operators transferred messages using paper tape
• National Association of Railway Clubs, an association of sports and social clubs in England, Scotland and Wales
• Norfolk Amateur Radio Club, a amateur radio organization Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada
• National Agricultural Research Center, a United States federal government research facility in Beltsville, MD

[edit] Etymologies

1. Short for "narcotic"
2. From Romani nāk = "nose"

[edit] See also

• snitch