Fink meaning

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An informer.
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A person regarded as contemptible, obnoxious, etc.
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To inform (on)
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(chiefly US, slang) Someone who betrays a trust.
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A contemptible person.
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An informer.
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A hired strikebreaker.
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To inform against another person.
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To withhold promised support or participation.

They said they'd help us, but then finked out.

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A strikebreaker; esp., a professional strikebreaker.
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(chiefly US, slang) To betray a trust.
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fink out
  • To withdraw; back out.
  • To fail.
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Idioms and Phrasal Verbs

Origin of fink

  • Perhaps from German student slang Fink student not belonging to a student association (from German finch) (akin to Old English finc) or perhaps from such German compounds as Schmutzfink dirty person, mudslinger Schmutz filth Fink finch (perhaps influenced by Rotwelsch (German underworld argot) Fink, Pink man) (akin to Frisian pink little finger, penis)
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Fink Sentence Examples

  • 20 shows a Fink truss, a characteristic early American type, with cast iron compression and wrought iron tension members.

  • (Leipzig, 1878); Count v.Waldersdorf, Regensburg in seiner Vergangenheit and Gegenwart (4th ed., Regensburg, 1896); Fink, Regensburg in seiner Vorzeit and Gegenwart (6th ed., Regensburg, 1903); and Schratz, Fiihrer durch Regensburg (5th ed., G.

  • Asher: DJ and producer PDS Asher: aka Pablo baby boo from manchester asks: what did u fink of da manchester crowds?

  • On July 31, 1999, he married make-up artist and founder of Delux Beauty, Jillian Fink.

  • ' This call-note, which to many ears sounds like "pink" or "spink," not only gives the bird a name in many parts of Britain, but is also obviously the origin of the German Fink and the English Finch.

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