Usually means: Evasive maneuvers; quick, playful movements.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. jinks: Merriam-Webster
  2. jinks: Collins English Dictionary
  3. jinks: Vocabulary.com
  4. Jinks, jinks: Wordnik
  5. Jinks, jinks: Wiktionary
  6. jinks: Dictionary.com
  7. jinks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. Jinks (disambiguation), Jinks: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. jinks: Rhymezone
  10. jinks: FreeDictionary.org
  11. jinks: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. jinks: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. jinks: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. jinks: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Jinks)

▸ noun:  A surname originating as a patronymic.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Estill County, Kentucky, United States.

Similar:
hijinks, high jinks, Jinkings, Jinkins, Jaggs, Janson, jump, Jewson, Jepson, jacks, more...

Opposite:
jinx, curse, hex, bad luck

Phrases:
high jinks, hi jinks, Cody Jinks, Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks, Dan Jinks, more...

Adjectives:
high, captain, low, sexual, youthful, verbal, usual, annual, theatrical, adolescent, comic

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Similar:
hijinks, high jinks, Jinkings, Jinkins, Jaggs, Janson, jump, Jewson, Jepson, jacks, more...

Opposite:
jinx, curse, hex, bad luck

Phrases:
high jinks, hi jinks, Cody Jinks, Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks, Dan Jinks, bit of high jinks, more...

Adjectives:
high, captain, low, sexual, youthful, verbal, usual, annual, theatrical, adolescent, comic



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