fink

Example Sentences

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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

Mom says you can have the fink bedroom that looks over the garden and down on the bay and the Golden Gate Bridge.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George