rat fink

noun

Definition of rat finknext
1
as in informant
a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing who's the sorry rat fink that went squealing to the cops?

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2
as in bastard
a person whose behavior is offensive to others regrets ever doing business with that rat fink, who cheated him out of gobs of money

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  1. informant
  2. informer
  3. jerk
  4. canary
  5. dog
  6. clown
  7. rat
  8. joker
Noun
  • Trump’s remarks follow last month’s inspector general report from the Biden Justice Department, which detailed the FBI’s use of confidential informants and prompted questions about their roles in the Jan. 6 protest.
    Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Jan. 2025
  • On one occasion, authorities say, the informant handed over to the FBI a plastic foam cup containing a granular substance that tested positive for drugs.
    CBS News, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of informant
Noun
  • Given the increasingly absurd pretexts the state is using for criminal prosecution and the resounding success of informers of all stripes, the judicial crackdown will continue to worsen.
    Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 17 May 2024
  • Standing in his way are British spies, French informers and jealous colleagues.
    Liza Foreman, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2024
Definition of informer
Noun
  • So feet further back to allow more spring in the heel to absorb left-right jerks of the machine is better.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 26 Dec. 2024
  • By Stephanie Zacharek December 25, 2024 6:00 AM EST The Bob Dylan of James Mangold’s extraordinary anti-biopic A Complete Unknown—who may or may not be an accurate version of the real Bob Dylan—is a jerk.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 25 Dec. 2024
Definition of jerk
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  • Cats, however, may turn out to be the canaries in the coalmines — pardon the mixed metaphor.
    Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 24 Dec. 2024
  • There is a loud warning in all of this, and Batman is sort of the canary in the coal mine.
    Mark Hughes, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
Definition of canary
Noun
  • According to LifeLine, the DeKalb shelter takes in 135 dogs a week on average.
    Jim Gaines, ajc, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The remains were found by two men who were running their dogs and looking for rocks, according to DNASolves.
    CBS News, CBS News, 13 Sep. 2023
Definition of dog
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  • Both movies feature a killer clown, but while Joaquin Phoenix’s grinning menace suffers from delusions of grandeur and an unspecified mental illness, the hideous ghoul from hell in Terrifier known as Art hacks away at his victims with no discernible motivation beyond the grisly acts themselves.
    Eric Kohn, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The story features Mauro, a clown who dreams of a carnival where a parade of revelers are celebrating his life.
    Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of clown
Noun
  • Perhaps that would have caught the egregious rat genitalia figure, although as Ars Science Editor John Timmer pointed out at the time, the software has limitations.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2024
  • The team says, however, that part of their next steps will be to develop mobile goggles that can ride along on the heads of larger rodents like rats or tree shrews.
    Michael Franco, New Atlas, 29 Dec. 2024
Definition of rat
Noun
  • The Bob Dylan that the world fell in love with was a thinker, a joker, a fighter, and sometimes a lover.
    Al Shipley, SPIN, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Imagine trying to slide a book on a table while some joker is pushing down on it.
    Rhett Allain, WIRED, 20 Sep. 2024
Definition of joker
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