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rat fink slang (chiefly U.S.).
Also rat-fink, ratfink.
[f. rat n.1 + fink n.2]
One who is obnoxious or contemptible, esp. (a) an odiously pretentious person; (b) an informer, a traitor. Also attrib. or as adj. Hence as v. trans., to inform on.
1964Guardian 8 July 7/6 That's the hitcheroo, baby,..this time when Cliff and Shirley dance on top of Everest it's a send up. That keeps the intellectual rat-finks happy, see. Ibid., This is going to bring them all in: the dads and mums, the squares, the rat-fink intellectuals, and the teenagers. 1965D. Boroff State of Nation 212 In fitting American youth for its destiny in the free world of tomorrow, our schools may be virtually compelling them to become a bunch of ratfinks. 1965P. De Vries Let me count Ways xx. 273 So cool and rat fink. What college did you go to? That made you so cultured and rat fink. 1966Listener 9 June 838/1 The cool cats and the rat finks and the camp hips [in America]. 1969C. Burke God is Beautiful, Man 88 His name was Judas and he was a rat fink. So this dirty rat fink he says to the pres of the gang, Caiaphas, ‘What's in it for me if I put the finger on him?’ 1973M. & G. Gordon Informant x. 46, I may be a rat fink but I'm not going to be a paid rat fink. 1973Houston Chron. 21 Oct. 10/2 As for informing on an honor violator, the colonel said you didn't exactly rat fink on such a man, you usually confront that man with his conduct and expect him to do the honorable thing. 1975A. Price Our Man in Camelot iii. 52 Gildas..was..denouncing the rulers of Britain as a bunch of rat⁓finks who were letting the country go to the dogs. 1976L. Deighton Twinkle, twinkle, Little Spy v. 30 It was Tony Nowak's rat-fink cousin Stefan who put the spaghetti in the piano. 1976Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 19 Feb. 5/2, I still think you were a rat fink. 1977New Yorker 26 Sept. 127 The hairy little hipster Go Go, a ratfink wearing a cross and a yarmulke. |