high jinks

high jinks

noun Informal.
boisterous celebration or merrymaking; unrestrained fun: The city is full of conventioneers indulging in their usual high jinks.
Also, hijinks.


Origin:
1760–70; see jink


horseplay, skylarking.

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high jinks or hijinks (ˈhaɪˌdʒɪŋks)
 
n
lively enjoyment
 
hijinks or hijinks
 
n

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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.

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