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han⋅ky-pan⋅ky

  [hang-kee-pang-kee]
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–noun Informal.
1. unethical behavior; deceit: When the bank teller bought an expensive car and house, they suspected there might be some hanky-panky going on.
2. illicit sexual relations.
Also, hankey-pankey, hanky pank.

Origin:
1835–45; rhyming compound; cf. initial h, p of higgledy-piggledy, hocus-pocus, hodge-podge, etc.
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han·ky-pan·ky   (hāng'kē-pāng'kē)
n.   Slang

  1. Devious or mischievous activity.

  2. Illicit sexual activity.


[Alteration of hokey-pokey, alteration of hocus-pocus.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
hanky-panky [ˈhæŋkiˈpæŋki]

  1. n.
    funny business; deceitfulness. : There's some hanky-panky going on in the treasurer's office.
  2. n.
    sexual play; sexual misconduct. (See also mifky-pifky (in the bushes).) : There's some hanky-panky going on in the storeroom.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

hanky-panky 
1841, "trickery," Brit. slang, possibly a variant of hoky-poky "deception, fraud," altered from hocus-pocus.
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