Meaning

2 senses

  1. (US, informal, plural, plural only)Police officers.

    Fifty of New York's finest were on hand for security.

  2. (US, informal, plural, plural only)Members of the military.

Forms

plural: finests
Singularfinest
Pluralfinests

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
(US)Police officers:city's finest

Word family

1 related words
Relatedbravest

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
fineA1finelyB2finessefingerB1fingernailB2fingerprint

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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