FINK


Meaning of FINK in English

/fingk/ , Slang.

n.

1. a strikebreaker.

2. a labor spy.

3. an informer; stool pigeon.

4. a contemptible or thoroughly unattractive person.

v.i.

5. to inform to the police; squeal.

6. to act as a strikebreaker; scab.

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.

[ 1900-05, Amer.; 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 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .