high jinks
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high jinks
or hi·jinks (hī'jĭnks') 
pl.n.
Playful, often noisy and rowdy activity, usually involving mischievous pranks.
pl.n.
Playful, often noisy and rowdy activity, usually involving mischievous pranks.
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high jinks
noun
- Annoying yet harmless, usually playful acts: devilry, deviltry, diablerie, impishness, mischief, mischievousness, prankishness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, tomfoolery. Informal shenanigan (often used in plural). See good/bad.
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high jinks
Playful or rowdy activity, often involving mischievous pranks. For example, All sorts of high jinks go on at summer camp after "lights out."
About 1700 this term denoted a gambling game accompanied by much drinking, but by the
mid-1800s it acquired its present meaning.
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hijinks
IN BRIEF: n. - Noisy and mischievous merrymaking.
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categories related to 'high jinks'
- Parties and Partying - high jinks: Informal. boisterous fun, esp. lively pranks
- Entertainments and Spectacles - high jinks: boisterous, unstructured carrying-on
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