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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hijinks

also hi-jinks, high jinks, "boisterous capers, lively or boisterous sport," 1842, from name of games played at drinking parties (1690s). See jink.

Wiktionary
hijinks

alt. tricky and/or humorous behaviour. n. tricky and/or humorous behaviour.

WordNet
hijinks

n. noisy and mischievous merrymaking [syn: jinks, high jinks, high jinx]

Usage examples of "hijinks".

It was chockablock with salons and saloons, hippodromes and nickel pitches, emporia, divertissements, hijinks, kickshaws, bagatelles, burlesque, and buffoonery.

Vigor brand Russian-made condoms, a few soiled, dogeared cards from less-than-reputable Moscow clubs known for the sexual hijinks that took place in private back rooms--Tarnapolsky had a small collection of such cartes de vi site--and, the crowning touch, a half-used tube of ointment customarily used to treat the topical manifestation of certain more benign sexually communicable diseases.

I like hijinks and fun-and-games as much as the next person, but Edwin, come on.

I oughta just throw over the whole sitcom package, ditch the world of Recycled Hijinks Ensue and go back to New York, back to doing standup, back to being my own corpse.

The story mirthlessly described courtship hijinks narrated in dialect by an old-timer, and I aced it.

Maybe I oughta just throw over the whole sitcom package, ditch the world of Recycled Hijinks Ensue and go back to New York, back to doing standup, back to being my own corpse.

I know about the hijinks of American teenagers set loose in Cold War Europe?

Their hijinks in the simulator were too many to catalog and both young men were certain that some Air Force colonel had lodged a complaint-again.