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
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
In American criminal circles, a fink was an informer or stool pigeon; a particularly egregious example of the species was given the intensified label of ratfink.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2014
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
"You fink I stayed around after this girl says there's a dragon about? Are you out of your mind?"
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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
I've had to fight finks and scabs and look out for my boys.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
"I've finked now," observed Rob, quite at his ease, and eager to win the entree into this delightful circle.
From Little Men by Alcott, Louisa May
Me and Nobbles finked we heard them say, "Run away; you've no business here."
From 'Me and Nobbles' by Le Feuvre, Amy
I finked Vic would turn, and he don't turn, and I 's hungry for somebody.
From A Master's Degree by McCarter, Margaret Hill
"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 Quiller-Couch, Mabel
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
Car rental companies and mass transit and traffic authorities are watching where we go, sending us automated tickets, finking us out to busybodies, cops and bad guys who gain illicit access to their databases.
From Little Brother by Doctorow, Cory
He was trying to make no noise, so he wouldn't wake me, finking I was asleep.
From Oonomoo the Huron by Ellis, Edward Sylvester
