Usually means: Quick, evasive movement to dodge.
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  1. jink: Merriam-Webster
  2. jink: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jink: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jink: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Jink, jink: Wordnik
  6. jink: Wiktionary
  7. jink: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. jink: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Jink, jink: Dictionary.com
  10. jink: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. jink: FreeDictionary.org
  12. jink: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  13. jink: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. jink: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. jink: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Jink (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. jink, jink, jink: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. jink: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A quick evasive turn.
noun:  A jack or knucklebone used in the game of the same name in the plural (possibly derived from the Scottish game high jinks).
verb:  (intransitive) To make a quick evasive turn or turns to confuse pursuers, incoming fire, etc.
verb:  (transitive) To cause a vehicle to make a quick evasive turn.
verb:  (intransitive, card games) In the games of spoilfive and forty-five, to win the game by taking all five tricks; also, to attempt to win all five tricks, losing what has been already won if unsuccessful.
verb:  To elude; to cheat.

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