finest

[fahy-nist]

noun

(used with a plural verb)

1. the police.

   New York City's finest.

Word History and Origins

Origin of finest¹

An Americanism dating back to 1925–30

Example Sentences

Some of the film’s finest moments involve O’Connor ceding the spotlight to his co-stars, each of them so offhandedly genuine one might assume Walker-Silverman gathered actual wildfire survivors.

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He observes, for example, that “by many assessments” Douglas Dillon was “one of the finest secretaries of the treasury” ever.

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Despite being considered one of the finest television shows of all time, “The Wire” received only two Emmy nominations — both for writing — and won neither.

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The Hobbit Houses are one of Southern California’s finest examples of Storybook architecture, a fantasy style that fittingly emerged in L.A. in the 1920s around the start of Hollywood’s Golden Age.

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The highlight was an al pastor mac and cheese where I slathered the cubes of pork in the finest theme park cheese slop.

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