hi-jinks

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See also: hijinks

English

Noun

hi-jinks (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of high jinks (alternative form of hijinks)
    • 1971, Don Pendleton, Chicago Wipeout (The Executioner; book 8)‎, New York, N.Y.: Open Road Integrated Media, published 2014, →ISBN:
      It was a face familiar to millions of Americans around the country, an almost intimate face to anyone who'd ever watched a televised news program or any other national hi-jinks from Chicago.
    • 2005, Scott J. Evans, “Evil Deeds”, in Breathe Deep the Passing Wind, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN:
      Those bastards hadn't left the school and gone back to their hi-jinks like we thought. Not at all. They'd been looking for us, eager to bash our brains in.
    • 2009, Taylor Branch, “Yeltsin and the Gingrich Revolution”, in The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President, London, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 195:
      Apparently the man had a reputation for hi[-]jinks, such as filing fake flight plans to deceive [Bill] Clinton's barnstorming rivals.
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