fink
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The first has a group of students refusing to name which among them mocked the teacher; the second finds one of them willing to fink.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
When he was asked in one 1965 interview about the hate mail he received after going electric, Dylan described being called a “Sellout, fink, Fascist, Red, everything in the book.”
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2017
Because Epson’s print heads are always connected to the printer, fink can be piped to them from anywhere—a cartridge or a tank on the side of the printer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2015
I can't imagine Turner saying to himself: "Ere, I fink I'll paint misself a John Wayne, innit?"
From The Guardian ● Apr. 26, 2013
“She’s pretty, too. Well, pretty enough for a fink like you. Seems sweet. You love her, don’t you?”
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
Now I'm beginning to wonder if we are all becoming mesmerised by these sly, furry finks and if they are mounting a bid for world supremacy.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2014
The plot is straight from Hollywood's pasteboard jungle, but the documentary scenes of punks and finks roaming through Manhattan's tenement-glutted, garbage-strewn juvenile jungle carry the authority of the headlines.
From Time Magazine Archive
I've had to fight finks and scabs and look out for my boys.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is one of the great finks of this world.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gold cuff finks on the sleeves of his black military tuxedo coat have the Colorado coat of arms engraved on them.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
He had finked, not been with them, and he would not, as we have seen, be with them that night in front of the Hilton.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 26, 2018
Me and Nobbles finked we heard them say, "Run away; you've no business here."
From 'Me and Nobbles' by Amy Le Feuvre
I finked Vic would turn, and he don't turn, and I 's hungry for somebody.
From A Master's Degree by Margaret Hill McCarter
"P'r'aps by the morning I'll have finked of something very nice—then won't you be glad?"
From The Carroll Girls by Mabel Quiller-Couch
"I've finked now," observed Rob, quite at his ease, and eager to win the entree into this delightful circle.
From Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
But finking out in favor of the Chiefs is just about as low as I could go.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023
Another song recalls Sterling Hayden, the tough-guy actor and star of "Johnny Guitar," who was wracked by guilt for finking on fellow actors during the McCarthy hearings in the 1950s.
From Reuters ● Jan. 19, 2012
Jacob looks like he’s finking about what to say.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
"You were finking of fings and got in my way."
From Phebe, Her Profession A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book by Anna Chapin Ray
Let me see now—" "Do let me say mine while you are finking.
From Kitty Trenire by Mabel Quiller-Couch
