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Peach
burst
open
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Peach burst open (5)
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The whole clue is the definition (& lit or double definition).
How the clue works
Two meanings hiding here, both landing on the same word. Peach's an old slang term for grassing someone up, snitching, while burst open is just describing something splitting apart at the seams — SPLIT covers both nicely.