finger



finger

1. tv. to point someone out; to identify someone (as having done something, been somewhere, etc.). Pete fingered Marty as being the one who arrived first.
2. n. someone who identifies criminals for the police; a police informer. (Underworld.) Taylor has become a finger for the cops.
3. n. an amount of liquor poured into a glass equal to the width of a finger. Britney said she only drank one finger, but the glass was five inches in diameter!
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Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Otieno-Eastern African, Luo
Fedor-Russian
Mallt-Welsh
Josefineyo-se-FEEN (Swedish), yo-ze-FEE-nə (German)Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, German
Bekki-English (Modern)
Mellony-English (Rare)