hijinks
- a variation of high jinks.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Strausbaugh recounts his subject’s hijinks gleefully, firmly embedding Duchamp at the center of New York’s 20th-century art scene.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
And with the bowl season starting Saturday, football fans can expect plenty of such hijinks, especially in games scheduled around the holidays.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 12, 2025
Sam Bankman-Fried, a onetime rival of Zhao’s, has been behind bars since the summer of 2023, when the judge presiding over his trial ordered him jailed over pretrial hijinks.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2025
The hijinks continued when he stepped behind the lectern to speak and the teleprompter was not working.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2025
By far the major portion of the book was devoted to spinsterish discourses on prison life—bad food, hijinks in the exercise yard, tedious little jailbird hobbies.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
