high jinks
Use High jinks in a sentencehigh jinks
noun Informal.
boisterous celebration or merrymaking; unrestrained fun: The city is full of conventioneers indulging in their usual high jinks.
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high jinks or hijinks (ˈhaɪˌdʒɪŋks) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
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| lively enjoyment | |
| hijinks or hijinks | |
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High jinks
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American Heritage
Idioms & Phrases
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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Example sentences
Sound may have recorded the known world, but silent high jinks took it into the unknown.
Quite a lot of us derive our patchy understanding of globalisation from such well-publicised high jinks.
Transatlantic high jinks follow when the couple's mothers and a despotic wedding.
He's not mischievous, nor is he believably priapic, as the high jinks of the first act require him to be.
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