high jinks
or hi·jinks
boisterous celebration or merrymaking; unrestrained fun: The city is full of conventioneers indulging in their usual high jinks.
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How to use high jinks in a sentence
More drunken high jinks ensue, and Hastings grabs more fodder for his story.
Juiciest Bits From Michael Hastings Book on Stanley McChrystal, Afghanistan | Laura Colarusso | January 5, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTLet's have a real old high jinks of a slambang bust to celebrate my convalescence.
The Incendiary | W. A. (William Augustine) LeahyNor were high jinks and special naval matters by any means Marryat's only province.
The English Novel | George SaintsburyThose were my high-jinks days when very many things seemed possible.
Carry On | Coningsby DawsonI thought you were having high jinks down in Maine on the yacht, and playing cards every night with your cronies!
Uncle Terry | Charles Clark Munn
The high jinks were kept up to an advanced hour, and every one agreed that they had never spent a more delightful evening.'
Jill the Reckless | P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
British Dictionary definitions for high jinks
hijinks
/ (ˈhaɪˌdʒɪŋks) /
lively enjoyment
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with high jinks
Playful or rowdy activity, often involving mischievous pranks. For example, All sorts of high jinks go on at summer camp after “lights out.” About 1700 this term denoted a gambling game accompanied by much drinking, but by the mid-1800s it acquired its present meaning.
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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