finger man

noun

: one who fingers (as for a gangster)

Chicago gangster methods, with finger men pointing out unreliables for the triggermen to kill

—Newsweek

the miraculous finder of lost boys and girls, the brilliant finger man of thousands of sheriff's posses and private trailers

—James Thurber

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