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also hijinks
as in joking
wildly playful or mischievous behavior
despite the team's dismal record, the players have won over many fans with their exuberant high jinks
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Recent Examples of high jinks
There, Elliot and Ridley pull up with a small motionless unicorn in the car that soon proves very much alive; high jinks ensue with enough scrambling silliness to suggest that Scharfman is also familiar with Abbott and Costello.
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Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
During Modern Family’s side-splitting 11-year run, there were numerous episodes filled with high jinks and all-out dysfunction.
—Demarco Williams, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Come for all the doggie high jinks – thanks to a ton of animatronic animals and a John Hughes screenplay – and stay for Close getting dunked in a vat of molasses.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was born out of the landscape of early animation, owing as much to the era’s high jinks–centric shorts as to the Brothers Grimm.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
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Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
During Modern Family’s side-splitting 11-year run, there were numerous episodes filled with high jinks and all-out dysfunction.
—Demarco Williams, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Come for all the doggie high jinks – thanks to a ton of animatronic animals and a John Hughes screenplay – and stay for Close getting dunked in a vat of molasses.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was born out of the landscape of early animation, owing as much to the era’s high jinks–centric shorts as to the Brothers Grimm.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
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“High jinks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high%20jinks. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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