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noun
1.
a strikebreaker.
2.
a labor spy.
3.
an informer; stool pigeon.
4.
a contemptible or thoroughly unattractive person.
verb (used without object)
5.
to inform to the police; squeal.
6.
to act as a strikebreaker; scab.
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Fink out
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
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| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
7.
fink out,
a.
to withdraw from or refuse to support a project, activity, scheme, etc.; renege: He said he'd lend me his motorcycle, but he finked out.
b.
to become untrustworthy.
Origin:
1900–05, Americanism; compared with German Fink literally, finch, colloquial epithet for an undesirable person, especially an untidy or loose-living one (often in compounds, as Duckfink sycophant, Schmierfink untidy writer); but the transmission of this word to E and the range of meanings of the E word have not been clarified fully
1900–05, Americanism; compared with German Fink literally, finch, colloquial epithet for an undesirable person, especially an untidy or loose-living one (often in compounds, as Duckfink sycophant, Schmierfink untidy writer); but the transmission of this word to E and the range of meanings of the E word have not been clarified fully
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| slang chiefly (US) (intr, adverb) to fail to carry something out or through; give up | |
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Word Origin & History
fink
1902, of uncertain origin, possibly from Ger. Fink "a frivolous or dissolute person," originally "finch," which also gave it another sense of "informer" (cf. 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.
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Slang Dictionary
fink (on (so)) definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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