hanky panky

What does hanky panky mean?

hanky panky means "verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way".

What is another word for hanky panky?

Close synonyms include trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hanky panky a common word?

hanky 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hanky panky come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.