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

When he was asked in one 1965 interview about the hate mail he received after going electric, Dylan described being called a “Sellout, fink, Fascist, Red, everything in the book.”

From Slate • Jul. 28, 2017

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

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

And then, to no one in particular, “Maybe we won’t fink on you guys. You never can tell. Maybe we just won’t be in the mood for finking. Huh, Tobe?”

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder