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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
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.
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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
Nothing that happens next is unexpected, but The Other Two has some passable high jinks and earnest emotion when Will realizes that everybody seems to like his clone better than him because Twoie’s putting in the work and trying.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
And the professional basketball front office proves a fertile ground for comfortably low-stakes sitcom high jinks, particularly when a loose-cannon player (Chet Hanks) starts making a mess of the Waves' public image.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025
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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
Nothing that happens next is unexpected, but The Other Two has some passable high jinks and earnest emotion when Will realizes that everybody seems to like his clone better than him because Twoie’s putting in the work and trying.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
And the professional basketball front office proves a fertile ground for comfortably low-stakes sitcom high jinks, particularly when a loose-cannon player (Chet Hanks) starts making a mess of the Waves' public image.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025
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“High jinks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high%20jinks. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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