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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Finns \Finns\, noun pl.; sing. {Finn}. (Ethnol.) (a) Natives of Finland; Finlanders. (b) A branch of the Mongolian race, inhabiting Northern and Eastern Europe, including the Magyars, Bulgarians, Permians, Lapps, and Finlanders. [Written also {Fins}.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Finn \Finn\, adjective A native of Finland; one of the Finn? in the ethnological sense. See {Finns}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Finn
noun: a native or inhabitant of Finland
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
finn v. [IRC] To pull rank on somebody based on the amount of time one has spent on {IRC}. The term derives from the fact that IRC was originally written in Finland in 1987. There may be some influence from the 'Finn' character in William Gibson's seminal cyberpunk novel "Count Zero", who at one point says to another (much younger) character "I have a pair of shoes older than you are, so shut up!"
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
finn To pull rank on somebody based on the amount of time one has spent on {IRC}. The term derives from the fact that IRC was originally written in Finland in 1987. [{Jargon File}] (2000-08-05)
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