hank panky

1. 1.

   illicit sexual intercourse

   Broadersexual intercourse

Questions about hank panky

What does hank panky mean?

hank panky means "illicit sexual intercourse".

Is hank panky a common word?

hank panky is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.