jinks, high jinks, hijinks, high jinx
(noun) noisy and mischievous merrymaking
Source: WordNet® 3.1
jinks
plural of jink
jinks
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jink
jinks
Indication of surprise or amazement; jinkies.
• D. H. Lawrence
We scrubbed 'em with horse-brushes on the stones. Jinks, but I rubbed some holes in 'em!
Jinks
A patronymic surname.
Source: Wiktionary
Jink, v. i. [Cf. Jig, v. i.]
1. To move quickly, esp. with a sudden turn; hence, to dodge; to escape by a quick turn; --obs. or dial., except as a hunting term in pig-sticking.
2. (Card Playing) In the games of spoilfive and forty-five, to win the game by taking all five tricks; also, to play to win all five tricks, losing what has been already won if unsuccessful.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
