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n An alcoholic beverage that is surreptitiously altered to induce diarrhea or stupefy, render unconscious, or otherwise incapacitate the person who drinks it.
fin/finn/finny/finnif/finnip/finnup/finnio/finnif
five pounds (£5), from the early 1800s. There are other spelling variations based on the same theme, all derived from the German and Yiddish (European/Hebrew mixture) funf, meaning five, more precisely spelled fünf. A 'double-finnif' (or double-fin, etc) means ten pounds; 'half-a-fin' (half-a-finnip, etc) would have been two pounds ten shillings (equal to £2.50).
For F**k’s Sake.
As in "I'm your huckleberry" means "I'm just the man you're looking for" or "I'm just the man for the job."
long-tailed 'un/long-tailed finnip
high value note, from the 1800s and in use to the late 1900s. Earlier 'long-tailed finnip' meant more specifically ten pounds, since a finnip was five pounds (see fin/finny/finnip) from Yiddish funf meaning five. There seems no explanation for long-tailed other than being a reference to extended or larger value.
going to. See "fi'n"Â "Son, I finna bust a cap."Â
Finnish for "nigger."
A cut above.
n 1. A small bottle of liquor, shaped to fit in a pocket. 2. A Mickey Finn.
alcohol and chloral hydrate
Friend. Phrase used as in the Hucklberry Hound cartoon series which itself was a derivative of the Bugs Bunny phrase "What's up Doc?".
(n) A drink drugged with knock-out drops (v) Take a Mickey Finn Take off, leave
a drink to which a drug has been added to make the drinker sleepy or unconscious
Lincoln's Inn is London Cockney rhyming slang for hand (fin). Lincoln's Inn is London Cockney rhyming slang for five pounds (finn). Lincoln's Inn was th century London Cockney rhyming slang for gin.
Drink spiked with a knock out drugs
Tom Finney is London Cockney rhyming slang for skinny.
Huckleberry Finn is Australian rhyming slang for gin.
Depressants
 Five pound note
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Any one of several American flounders somewhat resembling the true sole in form or quality, as the California sole (Lepidopsetta bilineata), the long-finned sole (Glyptocephalus zachirus), and other species.
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One of the dominant people of Hungary, allied to the Finns; a Hungarian.
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A shrub of the blueberry group (Vaccinium stamineum); also, its bitter, greenish white berry; -- called also squaw huckleberry.
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Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.
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Having fine supported by spinous fin rays; -- said of certain fishes.
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Of or pertaining to the Finns.
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A native of Finland; one of the Finn/ in the ethnological sense. See Finns.
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A Mongolian race, ancestors of the Finns.
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To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water.
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A Northern Turanian group of languages; the language of the Finns.
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A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward.
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The edible black or dark blue fruit of several species of the American genus Gaylussacia, shrubs nearly related to the blueberries (Vaccinium), and formerly confused with them. The commonest huckelberry comes from G. resinosa.
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Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the genus Labrus, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are bright-colored.
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See Whortleberry.
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The shrub that bears the berries. Called also whortleberry.
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Of or pertaining to Finland, to the Finns, or to their language.
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The fruit of several shrubby plants of the genus Gaylussacia; also, any one of these plants. See Huckleberry.
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Having the fin rays cartilaginous or flexible; without spines; -- said of certain fishes.
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Of or pertaining to the Sparidae, a family of spinous-finned fishes which includes the scup, sheepshead, and sea bream.
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A division of soft-finned fishes in which the ventral fins are situated beneath the pectorial fins, or nearly so.
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