What does high jinx mean?

high jinx means "noisy and mischievous merrymaking".

What is another word for high jinx?

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

high jinx is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

high jinx — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

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

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

Questions about high jinx

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