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fink
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fink has 1 sense
- fink(n = noun.person) canary, sneak, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon - someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police; Array is a kind of betrayer, blabber, informer, rat, squealer
Derived form verb fink2
Verb fink has 2 senses
- fink(v = verb.social) blackleg, rat, scab - take the place of work of someone on strike; Array is one way to do work, work
- fink(v = verb.communication) confess, squeal - confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure; Array is one way to acknowledge, admit
Sample sentence:
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Derived form noun fink1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
OXFORD DICTIONARY
fink, n. & v. US sl.
--n.
1 an unpleasant person.
2 an informer.
3 a strikebreaker; a blackleg.
--v.intr. (foll. by on) inform on.
--n.
1 an unpleasant person.
2 an informer.
3 a strikebreaker; a blackleg.
--v.intr. (foll. by on) inform on.
Etymology
20th c.: orig. unkn.
THESAURUS
fink
bear witness against, betray, betrayer, blab, blabber, blabberer, blabbermouth, blackleg, blow the whistle, canary, delator, inform against, inform on, informer, narc, nark, peach, peacher, rat, scab, sell out, snitch, snitch on, snitcher, spy, squeal, squealer, stool, stool pigeon, stoolie, strikebreaker, talebearer, tattle, tattler, tattletale, tell on, telltale, testify against, tipster, turn informer, whistle-blowerROGET THESAURUS
fink
Disclosure
N disclosure, retection, unveiling, deterration, revealment, revelation, exposition, exposure, expose, whole truth, telltale, acknowledgment, avowal, confession, confessional, shrift, bursting of a bubble, denouement, tattletale, snitch, fink, stool pigeon, canary, disclosed, open, public, Int, out with it!, the murder is out, a light breaks in upon one, the scales fall from one's eyes, the eyes are opened.
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