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fink

  [fingk] Slang.
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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.
—Verb phrase
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 G Fink lit., finch, colloquial epithet for an undesirable person, esp. 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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fink (on (so))

  1. in.
    to inform on someone. : Rocko never finks on his friends.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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fink out (on (so/sth))

  1. in.
    to decide not to cooperate with someone or something (after all). : Come on, don't fink out on us now.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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