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Fink   /fɪŋk/   Listen
Fink

noun
1.
Someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police.  Synonyms: canary, sneak, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon.






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"Fink" Quotes from Famous Books



... 1850, and for I know not how long previously, there lived at Peoria, Illinois, a journeyman-blacksmith named Abner Fink. I mention the date, 1850, because it was in that year that I myself settled in Peoria, and first had any knowledge of him; but I believe he had then been living there for some length of time. ...
— The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales • John Charles Dent

... fink," remarked Katie, who did not consider any of Dotty's sentences complete until she herself had added a ...
— Dotty Dimple Out West • Sophie May

... I was bare-headed, and grandma'll fink I'm bare-headed. Guess I won't go to g'andma's, kitty, I'll go to preach-man's house; preach-man ...
— Lill's Travels in Santa Claus Land and other Stories • Ellis Towne, Sophie May and Ella Farman

... remind you, Caleb Fink," said the owner of the emporium, "that your sphere is circumscribed to your duties? Attend to those phials, and drain them well before you bottle the citrate of magnesia. The last was spoiled by your unpardonable carelessness. I have not ...
— Miriam Monfort - A Novel • Catherine A. Warfield



Words linked to "Fink" :   betrayer, informer, acknowledge, admit, work, squealer, do work, blabber



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