fink

1. 1.

   someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police

   Synonymssnitchsnitcherstoolpigeonstool pigeonstooliesneaksneakercanary

   Broaderinformer

Other forms of fink

plural

finks·

past tense

finked·

present participle

finking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fink

What does fink mean?

fink means "take the place of work of someone on strike". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fink?

fink has 1 syllable: fink. In IPA it is /ˈfɪŋk/.

What is another word for fink?

Close synonyms include scab, rat, blackleg, confess, squeal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fink a common word?

fink is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.