finger man
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of finger man
An Americanism dating back to 1925–30
Example Sentences
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When Sir Anthony meets the finger man he says blandly, "We always wondered how long it would be before you turned us in."
From Time Magazine Archive
But there were nasty rumors that Augie was a finger man.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even the now deposed Malenkov can be described as a former police official, for as clerk of the 2,500,000 dossiers, he was actually Stalin's finger man in the great GPU purges.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Girra's finger man, eh?" called back Engel softly.
From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various
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