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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!

See:

• (one's) little finger told (one) that
• a finger in every pie
• a three-finger salute
• an itchy trigger finger
• be all fingers and thumbs
• burn fingers
• burn one's fingers
• butterfingers
• can count on the fingers of one hand
• cross fingers
• cross one's fingers
• finger
• finger as
• finger in every pie
• finger in the pie
• finger in the pie, have a
• finger on the pulse
• finger someone as someone
• finger wave
• fingers crossed
• Fingers were made before forks
• five-finger discount
• fork the fingers
• fucked by the fickle finger of fate
• get (one's) finger out
• get (one's) fingers burned
• get finger out
• get fingers burned
• give someone the finger
• give the finger
• green fingers
• hand in the till, with one's
• have (someone) turned around (one's) (little) finger
• have (someone) turned round (one's) (little) finger
• have (someone) twisted around (one's) (little) finger
• have (someone) twisted round (one's) (little) finger
• have (someone) wound around (one's) (little) finger
• have (someone) wound round (one's) (little) finger
• have (someone) wrapped around (one's) (little) finger
• have (someone) wrapped round (one's) (little) finger
• have a finger in every pie
• have a finger in the pie
• have a/ finger on the button
• have butterfingers
• have finger in too many pies
• have finger on the pulse
• have fingers in the till
• have green fingers
• have hand in the till
• have sticky fingers
• keep finger on the pulse of
• keep fingers crossed
• lay a finger on
• let slip
• let slip through fingers
• lift a finger
• long finger
• not lift a finger
• on the long finger
• one-finger salute
• point the finger at
• pull (one's) finger out
• pull my finger
• put (something) on the long finger
• put finger on
• put one's finger on
• put the finger on
• put the finger on someone
• put two fingers up at
• run fingers through hair
• slip through fingers
• snap one's fingers at
• stick to fingers
• sticky fingers
• the finger
• turn (someone) around (one's) (little) finger
• turn (someone) round (one's) (little) finger
• twist around little finger
• twist around one's finger
• two fingers
• wear fingers to the bone
• wind (someone) around (one's) (little) finger
• wind (someone) round (one's) (little) finger
• work fingers to the bone
• work one's fingers to the bone
• wrap (someone) around (one's) (little) finger
• wrap (someone) around (one's) little finger
• wrap (someone) round (one's) (little) finger
• wrapped around (one's) little finger