rat fink









rat fink


noun Slang.

  1. fink(defs 3, 4).

noun

  1. slang, mainly US and Canadian a contemptible or undesirable person
n.

also ratfink, 1963, teen slang, see rat (n.) + fink (n.). Popularized by, and perhaps coined by, U.S. custom car builder Ed “Big Daddy” Roth (1932-2001), who made a hot-rod comic character of it, supposedly to lampoon Mickey Mouse.

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