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fink
[ fingk ]
noun
- a strikebreaker.
- a labor spy.
- an informer; stool pigeon.
- a contemptible or thoroughly unattractive person.
verb (used without object)
- to inform to the police; squeal.
- to act as a strikebreaker; scab.
verb phrase
- to withdraw from or refuse to support a project, activity, scheme, etc.; renege:
He said he'd lend me his motorcycle, but he finked out.
- to become untrustworthy.
fink
/ fɪŋk /
noun
- a strikebreaker; blackleg
- an informer, such as one working for the police; spy
- an unpleasant, disappointing, or contemptible person
verb
- introften foll byon to inform (on someone), as to the police
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Example Sentences
Fink stresses the need for Nigeria to train and deploy women into more prominent law enforcement roles.
(tie) Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink (5 votes)6.
Fink ran through a litany of concerns: China, Japan, “the nonsense in Washington,” the Federal Reserve.
Michael Fink, Dean of the Fashion School at the Savannah College of Art and Design, told The Daily Beast.
"You just don't leave with a song in your head," Suzy Fink of Chicago says after a recent performance.
But my faver says it's un-man-ly to be always kissing, and I did n't fink you'd do vat, Coppy.
Fig. 20 shows a Fink truss, a characteristic early American type, with cast iron compression and wrought iron tension members.
This general description harmonizes with the apt figure used by that master mind in railway economics, Albert Fink.
Tisnt but a little mite of a persecute, when we fink about Jesuss, is it, mamma?
I fink the writing says, Miss Daisy Ransom, with somebody's respects.
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