jinks
Britishplural noun
Etymology
Origin of jinks
C18: of unknown origin
Example Sentences
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A lot of time-travel high jinks follow, familiar in their broad outlines but unconventional and highly entertaining in their specifics.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
Not everyone goes to the theater to be wowed by verbal pyrotechnics or daredevil plot high jinks.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2025
Certainly the high jinks have caught the attention of those in Australia, who have put the sandpaper down long enough to have their say on England's morals.
From BBC • Jul. 30, 2025
Yet the comic high jinks, star-crossed lovers and long-lost relatives that pop up in his play “The Miser,” first produced in 1668, will be instantly familiar to anybody who has ever seen a Shakespeare comedy.
From New York Times • May 3, 2024
Smith’s high jinks with the press and Seabiscuit’s recent history of scratches had come back to haunt him.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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