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noun
An informer or spy; a traitor.
The authors have facetiously labeled the contemplated musical as 'Ratfink', after the name of its central character, James J. Ratfink. Its title is not meant in a derogatory sense.
The film director accused him of being the worst kind of a rat fink (rat pack talk) for leaving a play so early.
A dislikable or contemptible person.
Maxwell—or Maxie, as he was familiarly called by his once and former rat fink girlfriend—lived in a six-story walkup on a narrow street in Calm's Point, […]
He [Dubyaman, a parody comic superhero based loosely on George W. Bush] searches for "dirty ratfink terrorists" and aims to ferret out their "whacko ideas."
A strikebreaker.
verb
To inform on; to betray.
It led to some rather incredible and colourful claims in the submission by the union that the employers had ratfinked on previous agreements.
The dumb bastard says he never rat-finks on a woman. They're too precious, he tells me. And he should know. He has had many of them.