单词 | fink |
释义 | fink /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] |
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