Fink (Verb)
Meaning 1
Take the place of work of someone on strike.
Classification
Verbs of political and social activities and events.
Examples
- The company hired outside workers to fink the striking employees, which only increased tensions between the two groups.
- Union representatives encouraged their members not to cross picket lines and fink their fellow strikers.
- Negotiations stalled as management refused to address worker demands, resorting instead to threatening to fink strikers with replacement employees.
- When the workers found out that their boss was hiring temporary workers to fink them, they held an emergency meeting to discuss their next move.
- The rivalry between union and company became more intense as management tried to fink the striking workers with cheaper labor from neighboring towns.
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Meaning 2
Confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure.
Classification
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
Examples
- The prisoner finked on his gang members to avoid a harsher sentence.
- He was forced to fink on his accomplices during the intense interrogation.
- The threat of a longer prison term made him fink on the rest of the crew.
- Under heavy pressure, the suspect began to fink and revealed the details of the crime.
- The defendant finked on the mastermind behind the crime in exchange for immunity.