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jink

  [jingk]
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–noun
1. jinks, prankish or frolicsome activities.
2. British Dialect. chink.
Origin:
1690–1700; var. of dial. chink to gasp violently; cf. OE cincung boisterous laughter
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jink   (jĭngk)   
v.   jinked, jink·ing, jinks

v.   intr.
To make a quick, evasive turn: "He jinked every five seconds, and now brought his tank left again" (Tom Clancy).
v.   tr.
To cause (a vehicle or an aircraft, for example) to make a quick, evasive turn.
n.  

  1. A quick, evasive turn.

  2. jinks Rambunctious play; frolic.


[Origin unknown.]
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Word Origin & History

jink 
"to wheel or fling about in dancing" (v.), 1715, of unknown origin. High jinks (1700) originally was a drinking game; sense of "lively or boisterous sport" is from 1842.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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