Etymology

hijinxs

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A nonstandard respelling; considering fairly recent citations, possibly reinforced by "Jungle Hijinxs", the name of the first level of the popular 1994 video game Donkey Kong Country.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.