hi-jinx

A form of high jinks — An old Scottish parlour game in which people were chosen, usually by throwing dice, to perform some humorous act or drink a large amount of an alcoholic beverage, with a forfeit if they were unable to do so.

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Meanings

nounhi-jinx (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of high jinks (alternative form of hijinx).

    Even though I have no arms or legs I did put my mom through some tough times. I did my share of rebellion and hi-jinx.

    2014 August 27, Kent Bell, “Hi-jinx Stories”, in Look Ma, No Hands, No Legs Either, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 41
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    Day of the Dead stretches the zombie film just about as far as it can go – and the film [George Andrew] Romero wanted to make could have been even more challenging – but the horror movie audience is more interested in the partying hi-jinx of trendy monsters like [Dan] O'Bannon's funky zombies, Freddy Krueger or Herbert West.

    2011, Kim Newman, “Postscript: The Post-modern Horror Film”, in Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen since the 1960s, revised edition, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, part 1 (Nightmare Movies), page 288

    He had no idea what was going on up there at the house, hoped it was no more than some trivial case of assault or some drunken sexual hi-jinx – but his sense of discomfort, bordering at times on dread – would not go away.

    2014, I. G. Armstrong, Slaughtering Butterflies, →ISBN, page 158
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