- a variation of high jinks.
hijinks
Example Sentences
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From story to story, William never ages, though his hijinks keep pace with the passage of time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The viewer’s in for an unexpected twist, too, seeing as all of these characters but Rachel will soon be afterthoughts, tossed aside to maintain a constant laser focus on Marty’s hijinks.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2025
And with the bowl season starting Saturday, football fans can expect plenty of such hijinks, especially in games scheduled around the holidays.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 12, 2025
Sam Bankman-Fried, a onetime rival of Zhao’s, has been behind bars since the summer of 2023, when the judge presiding over his trial ordered him jailed over pretrial hijinks.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2025
By far the major portion of the book was devoted to spinsterish discourses on prison life—bad food, hijinks in the exercise yard, tedious little jailbird hobbies.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
