Meaning & use
Fingered
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Touched or handled with the fingers, or informally identified someone to the authorities as responsible for a crime.
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She fingered the fabric to check whether it was silk or polyester.
An anonymous witness fingered him as the getaway driver.
A note on using this word
The 'informant' sense, as in 'fingered a suspect,' dates back to early 20th-century criminal slang.
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implicatedtouched
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Another way to use it
2. verb
Played a musical instrument using a particular arrangement of the fingers.
He fingered the opening chords of the song before starting to sing.
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