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Aug. 16, 2014

fink

\fingk\

verb
1. Slang. to inform to the police; squeal.
2. Slang. to act as a strikebreaker; scab.

Quotes

You want me to find out what happened to all those kids I ran with, who didn't know I was studying them like bugs in a bottle. You want me to go down there seventeen years later and say, "I'm the guy finked on you, remember me?"
-- Harlan Ellison, "Punky and the Yale Men," Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled, 1968

Origin

Fink emerged as a slang term in the US in the early 1900s. Its origin is unknown, but some etymologists cite the German word of the same spelling, which means "a frivolous or dissolute person," as a possible lexical ancestor.

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regalo, noun
bargain, steal

Apart from meaning a gift, regalo is often used to describe something which is a real bargain, or a ‘steal’.

entradas a 7.50 dolares, un precio de auténtico regalo
tickets at 7.50 dollars, a real steal

If something is described as a un precio de regalo, it is at a bargain basement or knockdown price:

primeras ediciones a un precio de regalo
first editions at bargain basement prices

If you describe someone or something as un regalo del cielo, you mean they are a godsend:

A Fernando le había caído como regalo del cielo.
It had been a godsend for Fernando.

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