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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fink
verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Besides, I fink they do a good job.
▪ I fink they've got rid o' that chaff-cutter.
▪ Mind you though, I fink it was the pipe what did it.
▪ Once yer know the date an' time o' the job yer can fink back.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fink

1902, of uncertain origin, possibly from German Fink "a frivolous or dissolute person," originally "a finch" (see finch); the German word also had a sense of "informer" (compare stool pigeon). The other theory traces it to Pinks, short for Pinkerton agents, the private police force hired to break up the 1892 Homestead strike. As a verb, 1925 in American English slang. Related: Finked; finking.

Wiktionary
fink

n. (context chiefly US slang English) Someone who betrays a trust. vb. (context chiefly US slang English) To betray a trust.

WordNet
fink

n. someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police [syn: snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stoolie, sneak, sneaker, canary]

Wikipedia
Fink

The Fink project is an effort to port and package open-source Unix programs to Mac OS X. Fink uses dpkg and APT ( Debian's package management system), as well as its own frontend program, fink (which is implemented as a set of Perl modules).

Fink (disambiguation)

Fink is a collaborative computing project to port Unix programs to Mac OS X.

Fink may also refer to:

As a name

  • Fink (surname), people and fictional characters with the surname
  • Fink (singer), or Fin Greenall, English singer and songwriter

Other uses:

  • slang for an informant
  • Fink, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
  • 10891 Fink, an asteroid
  • Fink (album), a 1989 album by the Swamp Zombies
  • F*INK, a free weekly event guide in Dunedin, New Zealand
  • Rat Fink, a cartoon character from "Kustom Kulture" hot rod detailing
Fink (album)

Fink is the second album by the Swamp Zombies and was released in 1989 under the Doctor Dream Records label.

Fink (singer)

Fink, aka Fin Greenall, is an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer and DJ, born in Cornwall and currently based in Berlin and London. From 1997–2003 he focused on electronic music and DJ'd internationally, releasing in 2000 his debut album Fresh Produce on Ninja Tune. Since the 2006 release of his album Biscuits for Breakfast, the name Fink has also referred to the recording and touring trio fronted by Greenall himself, completed by Guy Whittaker (bass) and Tim Thornton (drums). Well known for the 2007 song "This is the Thing" and the 2011 album Perfect Darkness. Greenall's skills as a songwriter have created a demand for his talents among fellow artists.

Most recently he has written in collaboration with John Legend, Banks, Ximena Sarinana and Professor Green. With Amy Winehouse he co-wrote the song "Half Time", which appears on Winehouse's posthumous collection Lioness: Hidden Treasures. In 2012 Fink collaborated and performed with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, resulting in the live album Fink Meets The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Fink is currently signed to his own label, R'COUP'D Records, a subsidiary of Ninja Tune. In 2014, he released the album Hard Believer, his most successful album to date, charting in a great number of European Albums Charts.

Fink (surname)

Fink (from German, meaning the bird finch) is a surname, and may refer to:

Usage examples of "fink".

Jerry Fink, freelance writer Bradley West, a residential contractor named Bob Bonano, and Holiday.

He stood in the middle of a group including Jerry Fink, Bob Bonano, and Bradley West.

Kiss Princess Arjumand and stroke her dear sweet fur for me, and tell her that her muvver finks of her dearum dearums darling evewy day.

Fink has insulted Herr Wohlfart, who is quite raging, and Herr Specht says there is to be a duel.

They said you could tell which men had ever tried to wrassle Mike Fink, cause they got no ears.

Measure knew a few wrassling tricks, but Fink never even tried to grapple with him.

Joerg Weiss, Richard Pavonarius, Stephen Drury, Matthew Danis, Reilly Beacom, Michael Mayfield, Steven Shouse, Lewis Minteer, Michael Romeo, Peter Diamond, Albert West, Michael Coaty, Dennis Faust, William Midyette, Mark Friedman, Patrick Stevenson, Roger Bass, Bruce Press, Chris Anderson, Patrick Ainge, Steve Johnson, Joel Lipton, Thomas Kier, Michael J Garcia, Dane Summers, Martin Kardon, Steve Rollins, Michael Clark, Brad Callaway, Jerry Scullion, Robert Fink, David Eaton, Dwight Illk, Len Humbird, Andrew T.

Bert had qualified for the Ten Square Band three months before, Helmholtz had turned him over to the best trumpet teacher in town, Larry Fink, for the final touches of grace and color.

Joerg Weiss, Richard Pavonarius, Stephen Drury, Matthew Danis, Reilly Beacom, Michael Mayfield, Steven Shouse, Lewis Minteer, Michael Romeo, Peter Diamond, Albert West, Michael Coaty, Dennis Faust, William Midyette, Mark Friedman, Patrick Stevenson, Roger Bass, Bruce Press, Chris Anderson, Patrick Ainge, Steve Johnson, Joel Lipton, Thomas Kier, Michael J Garcia, Dane Summers, Martin Kardon, Steve Rollins, Michael Clark, Brad Callaway, Jerry Scullion, Robert Fink, David Eaton, Dwight Illk, Len Humbird, Andrew T.

Would he think I was a potential informer, a philandering fink to the Feds?

His possibly negative IQ, complete absence of street cred and, above all, his permanent inclination to snort, suck, swallow or bite anything that promised to make his brain sparkle, meant that he had been turned down even by the Tenth Egg Street Can't fink of aname Gang, rumoured to be so dense that one of their members was a lump of concrete on a piece of string.

You send 'er the ten bob a week wivaht syin' anyfink, an' she'll fink it comes from Gawd or the Gover'ment yer cawn't tell one from t'other in Befnal Green.

Ive always liked him & Ive always luked up 2 him evir sins he woz 1 ov thi peepil they sent me 2 when they reelized I tolkd farely normil but I thot a bit funy, + I tend 2 do whot he sez - it woz him sed Perhaps u wood make a good tellir, & him whot sujjestid I keep a jurnil, witch this is whot u r readin - but this time I doan mutch care whot he finks, or @ least I do but I doan mutch care how bad it makes me feel goan agenst his advice bcoz I juss no I ½ 2 do this.

Something about the Outfit, and something about her husband thinking she was going to fink out, and something about pushers.

The tones sounded five times, and I was just beginning to think that Harry was going to fink out on me in my hour of need when the screen rolled once and came back up with his homely, balding head looking out at me.