What does high jinks mean?

high jinks means "noisy and mischievous merrymaking".

What is another word for high jinks?

Close synonyms include jinks, hijinks, high jinx. 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 high jinks a common word?

high jinks 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.

high jinks — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
noisy and mischievous merrymaking
Synonymsjinks hijinks high jinx
Broadermerrymaking
plural

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What does high jinks mean?: high jinks means "noisy and mischievous merrymaking".
What is another word for high jinks?: Close synonyms include jinks, hijinks, high jinx. 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.

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