finked; finking; finks
informal
: to give information about another's wrongdoing to an authority : squeal
" … A bunch of us had busted somebody's beautiful etched glass window with a brick. The cops came, rounded us up, and we all denied it except one guy who finked. … "—
Dick Cavett
—usually used with onDick CavettHe finked on them (to the police/teacher).
"Tell on you?" Ken said. "What makes you think we'd do a thing like that?" "Of course not," Toby said. "We don't go around finking on people."—Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Zilpha Keatley SnyderExamples of fink in a Sentence
Noun
She says her boss is a rotten fink.
his own brother turned out to be the fink who ratted them out to the police
Verb
we never would have been caught if he hadn't finked on us
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Marc Ramirez, Dallas News, 20 June 2019
Everybody is -- everybody is finking on each other.
—Fox News, 30 June 2018
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Verb
Dominican authorities say Fernandez, the intended target, is Gomez' cousin and that Gomez plotted the hit believing that Fernandez had finked on him to Dominican drug officials in 2011.
—Marc Ramirez, Dallas News, 20 June 2019
Everybody is -- everybody is finking on each other.
—Fox News, 30 June 2018
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“Fink.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fink. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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