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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
jinks
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
high jinks
▪ youthful high jinks
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
high
▪ The main features marking the presence of a poltergeist are moving objects, electrical high jinks, or mysterious noises.
▪ While the incident curbed her wilder high jinks, Diana was always game for a dare.
▪ He used to get up to all kinds of high jinks on those trips, by all accounts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He used to get up to all kinds of high jinks on those trips, by all accounts.
▪ The main features marking the presence of a poltergeist are moving objects, electrical high jinks, or mysterious noises.
▪ While the incident curbed her wilder high jinks, Diana was always game for a dare.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
jinks

jinks \jinks\ n. noisy and mischievous merrymaking.

Syn: high jinks, hijinks.

Wiktionary
jinks

n. (plural of jink English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: jink)

WordNet
jinks

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

Wikipedia
Jinks

Jinks may refer to:

  • Jinx, a type of curse placed on a person, or a person afflicted with a similar curse, and also a slang term used when two people say the same thing at the same time
  • Jinks (rapper), a Danish rapper (real name Lars Ankerstjerne) also known as Ankerstjerne
  • Jinks, Kentucky
  • Jinks Island, an island in the Biscoe Islands

Usage examples of "jinks".

Adam Jinks was killed in a knife fight in Florida City last Friday night.

My wife's cousin was out of his head and he cut up high jinks around the house, a-threatenin' folks with a butcher knife.

Look, I don't mind telling you that, same as yourself, I had some high jinks when I was a lad.

It's unlikely that Jinks would know anything about Bock's hiring problem down in Goulds or Florida City, so you'll have to pick up that information in town before going out to his farm.

You've got to play the part of Adam Jinks, and he's got to be broke enough to actually hit Tiny Bock up for a job.

A toothless migrant like Adam Jinks could hardly explain how he came to own a 1973 Pontiac with a new engine and a police radio.

Not even a Social Security card for the unmourned Adam Jinks, stretched out now on a gurney in the Miami morgue with the top of his skull sawed off.

Even if Adam Jinks was also toothless, he must have had a set of choppers stashed somewhere.

He was puzzled by Mel Peoples's sudden departure for Tallahassee and Noseworthy's intuitive feeling that he didn't think that any man named Adam Jinks would show up at his guesthouse.

Just a few moments previously when Run Bantry's hand had been advanced to press the bell, Marina Gregg had been saying in a soft, enthusiastic voice, to her husband: 'This place is right for me, Jinks, just right.

And what a coincidence that they should have met that time in San Fransisco and that two yeats later she and Jinks should actually buy the house that had once belonged to Mrs Bantry.

Oh, Jinks, Jinks - do help me - get me away from here -:t me go somewhere safe .

On the last night they put on the Jinks proper, a great spectacle in praise of the forest with poetic words, music and effects done by the club.

Tanaka started up and down jinks, trying to get the radar-guided missiles to overcorrect and overshoot their target.