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Definitions for Fink

[1] a strikebreaker.
[2] a labor spy.
[3] an informer; stool pigeon.
[4] a contemptible or thoroughly unattractive person.
[5] to inform to the police; squeal.
[6] to act as a strikebreaker; scab.
[7] fink out , 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.
[8] a strikebreaker; blackleg
[9] an informer, such as one working for the police; spy
[10] an unpleasant, disappointing, or contemptible person
[11] (intr often foll by on ) to inform (on someone), as to the police

Words related to Fink

squealer, rat, stoolie, snake, snitch, tattletale, weasel, whistle-blower, scab, canary, nark, tipster, narc

Words nearby Fink

finite-dimensional, finitely additive function, finitism, finito, finitude, fink, fink out, finland, finlander, finlandia, finlandization

Origin of Fink

1900–05, Americanism ; compared with German Fink literally, finch, colloquial epithet for an undesirable person, especially an untidy or loose-living one (often in compounds, as Duckfink sycophant, Schmierfink untidy writer); but the transmission of this word to English and the range of meanings of the English word have not been clarified fully

Word origin for Fink

C20: of uncertain origin

Synonyms for Fink

canary, narc, nark, rat, scab, snake, snitch, squealer, stoolie, tattletale, tipster, weasel, whistle-blower, stool pigeon