| 单词 | finger man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfinger man finger man n. †(a) (perhaps) a recipient or object of something (obsolete); (b) (originally and chiefly U.S.) a member of a criminal gang who provides preparatory information for a crime; = sense 12c; (c) an informer; = sense 12b.Sense (a) apparently represents an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > informing on or against > [noun] > informer wrayerc1000 wrobberc1300 discoverera1400 denunciator1474 informer1503 denouncer1533 detector1541 delatora1572 sycophant1579 inquisitor1580 scout1585 finger man1596 emphanista1631 quadruplator1632 informant1645 eastee-man1681 whiddler1699 runner1724 stag1725 snitch1785 qui tam1788 squeak1795 split1819 clype1825 telegraph1825 snitcher1827 Jack Nasty1837 pigeon1847 booker1863 squealer1865 pig1874 rounder1884 sneak1886 mouse1890 finger1899 fizgig1902 screamer1902 squeaker1903 canary1912 shopper1924 narker1932 snurge1933 cheese eater1935 singer1935 tip-off1941 top-off1941 tout1959 rat fink1961 whistle-blower1970 1596 A. Copley Fig for Fortune 26 I was The Rag of Fortune: Badge of base deblesse, The Spunge of care, a broken Hower-glasse: The Finger-man of shame. 1928 Englewood (Chicago) Times 16 Mar. 1/5 Before the bombing..the ‘joint’ is ‘cased’ by a ‘finger man’. 1936 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 23 Nov. One of the trusted ‘inner circle’ men was ‘selling them out’ to the outside gang. But which one among them was the ‘finger man’ the racketeers did not know. 1950 Chester (Pa.) Times 2 May 1/7 Dutifully pursuing his profession of paid informer and unscrupulous finger-man. 1968 ‘E. McGirr’ Lead-lined Coffin ii. 80 He was right to concentrate on Fall. There could have been the fingerman watching him. 1999 Daily Mail (Nexis) 28 Jan. 25 While he never pulled the trigger, he acted as a ‘finger man’ who picked victims, studied their movements and then provided detailed action plans for the hitmen. < as lemmas |
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