fink
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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
Thus, the exam rooms of Old Nassau are some of the few places where it is not just appropriate but necessary for a gentleman to fink on his friends.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2014
"I fink he struggled a little bit with the English language," mused Jamie, adding that England's players "didn't perform as well as wot they can."
From The Guardian ● Jul. 6, 2010
Besides, you hear lots of useful fings when people fink you’re sleeping.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
Now I'm beginning to wonder if we are all becoming mesmerised by these sly, furry finks and if they are mounting a bid for world supremacy.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2014
He is one of the great finks of this world.
From Time Magazine Archive
The plot is straight from Hollywood's pasteboard jungle, but the documentary scenes of punks and finks roaming through Manhattan's tenement-glutted, garbage-strewn juvenile jungle carry the authority of the headlines.
From Time Magazine Archive
I've had to fight finks and scabs and look out for my boys.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gold cuff finks on the sleeves of his black military tuxedo coat have the Colorado coat of arms engraved on them.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
He had finked, not been with them, and he would not, as we have seen, be with them that night in front of the Hilton.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 26, 2018
I finked Vic would turn, and he don't turn, and I 's hungry for somebody.
From A Master's Degree by Margaret Hill McCarter
"I've finked now," observed Rob, quite at his ease, and eager to win the entree into this delightful circle.
From Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
"P'r'aps by the morning I'll have finked of something very nice—then won't you be glad?"
From The Carroll Girls by Mabel Quiller-Couch
Me and Nobbles finked we heard them say, "Run away; you've no business here."
From 'Me and Nobbles' by Amy Le Feuvre
But finking out in favor of the Chiefs is just about as low as I could go.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023
Another song recalls Sterling Hayden, the tough-guy actor and star of "Johnny Guitar," who was wracked by guilt for finking on fellow actors during the McCarthy hearings in the 1950s.
From Reuters ● Jan. 19, 2012
Jacob looks like he’s finking about what to say.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
I was only finking they'd be handier for you to get at in the cellar.
From The Hollow of Her Hand by George Barr McCutcheon
Oh, I wonder what she’s doun’ and finking this Christmas.”
From Maida's Little Shop by Inez Haynes Gillmore
