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to move suddenly aside or to and fro
- jinking here and there with remarkable agility, the thieving urchin frustrated all attempts to catch him
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“Jink.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jink. Accessed 9 December 2019.
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The first known use of jink was in 1785
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