jinkn.1
/dʒɪŋk/, U.S. /dʒɪŋk/, Scottish English /dʒɪŋk/ Originally Scottish.
1.
a. The act of eluding; a quick turn so as to elude a pursuer or escape from a guard. Used esp. of a tricky turn in Rugby, or in Aeronautics. Also transferred and figurative. to give the jink, to give the slip by way of a trick.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > [noun] > avoiding by moving to the side > movement
jouk1513
jink1786
the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [noun] > evasion or escape from threat > evasive action > an act of
jouk1513
dodge1575
slip1607
jink1786
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres
scrimmaging1776
throw on1845
rush1857
catch1858
maul1860
touch1863
mauling1864
touch-in-goal1869
goal-kicking1871
throw-forward1871
sidestepping1877
handing1882
punting1882
heel1886
touch kicking1889
forward pass1890
scrumming1892
touch-finding1895
heeling1896
wheel1897
scrag1903
reverse pass1907
jinka1914
hand-off1916
play-the-ball1918
gather1921
pivot pass1922
sidestep1927
smother-tackle1927
stiff-arm1927
heel-back1929
scissors1948
rucking1949
loose scrummaging1952
cut-through1960
pivot break1960
put-in1962
chip kicking1963
box kicking1971
peel1973
chip and chase1976
tap penalty1976
society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [noun] > turn > quick turn, avoiding pursuer
jink1943
1786 R. Burns Poems 181 Our billie's gien us a' a jink, An' owre the sea.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 124 Now, lass, if ye like, we'll play them a fine jink; we will awa' out and take a walk—they will mak unco wark when they miss us, but we can easily be back by dinner time.
1889 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Pigsticking 125 In pursuit of a small wild boar..She followed his every ‘jink’ or jump striving to get him under her forefeet.
a1914 J. E. Raphael Mod. Rugby Football (1918) 122 [Poulton Palmer's] ‘jink’ is all by itself in modern-day Rugger.
1921 E. H. D. Sewell Rugby Football up to Date vi. 126 The defender..moves to his left as the dummy pass is made, thus making wider the gap which the attacker widens still further by his jink to the defender's right.
1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 41 Jinks, quick turns in the air, a form of aerobatics and of avoiding action.
1959 V. Fuchs Antarctic Adventure xii. 168 Suddenly,..below them, they spotted vehicle tracks in the snow. From the outward flight they remembered that except for one ‘jink’ these led in a straight line from South Ice—and the ‘jink’ was only about a quarter of a mile from the station.
1969 P. Dickinson Pride of Heroes 164 A jink in his train of thought made Pibble wonder who the next heir was.
b. A ‘turn’ or ‘point’ in an argument.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > putting forward for discussion > [noun] > twist in an argument
winch?1551
jink1823
1823 J. Galt Ringan Gilhaize I. xiv. 158 At this jink o' their controversy, who should come in..but Winterton.
2. Cards. The winning of a game of spoil-five, twenty-five, or forty-five, by taking all the tricks in one hand.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > spoil-five > winning
jink1887
1887 Standard Hoyle 225 Jinks, or, as it is sometimes called, Jink Game, is derived from Spoil-five. The game is won when all five tricks are taken.
1891 ‘Professor Hoffmann’ Cycl. Card & Table Games i. 248 A player making all five tricks is said to make a ‘jink,’ and wins the game, whether at twenty-five or forty-five.
3. high jinks n. apparently originally high pranks.† a. A name given to various frolics formerly indulged in at drinking parties. Scottish. Obsolete.They mostly consisted in deciding by the throw of dice who should perform some ludicrous task for the amusement of the company, or who should empty a large bowl of liquor, failure in either case entailing a forfeit. See Hone Year-bk. (1892) 566; also Ramsay's note to quot. 1711, and the full context of quot. 1815.
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society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > [noun] > noisy or riotous
riotingc1390
revelling1395
revelc1400
revelryc1410
revel-rout?1499
jetting1509
deray?a1513
company keeping1529
banqueting1535
roistingc1560
wassailinga1586
riotise1590
roister-doisterdom1592
reels1603
roaring1617
ranting1633
rattle1688
high jinks1699
roistering1805
spree1808
wassailry1814
revelment1822
Tom and Jerryism1822
spreeing1845
to be on the roister1860
riotousness1882
whoopee1928
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Highjinks, a Play at Dice who Drinks.
1711 A. Ramsay Elegy Maggy Johnstoun iv Often in Maggy's, at hy-jinks We guzzled scuds, Till we could scarce, wi' hale-out drinks, Cast off our duds.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 264 The revel had lasted since four o'clock, and, at length..the frolicsome company had begun to practise the ancient and now forgotten pastime of High Jinks. This game was played in several different ways.
1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott May anno 1795 The evening ended in the full jollity of High Jinks.
a1854 Ld. Cockburn Memorials (1856) iv. 225 There were no High Jinks, or sprightly sayings, or songs; but a good deal of kindly personal bantering.
1890 M. Oliphant Royal Edinb. iv. i. 409 He only learned to rhyme from the necessity of taking his part in the high jinks of the club.
b. Lively or boisterous sport; romping games or fun; free or unrestrained merry-making. (Also simply jinks.)
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society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [noun] > a frolic
oliprancec1390
ragerya1393
vague1523
rex1566
friskin1570
gambol1573
reak1573
prank1576
vagary1588
whirligig1589
caper1592
prinkum-prankum1596
firk1611
frolica1635
carryings-on1663
ramp1696
romp1713
freak1724
scheme1758
rig1782
lark1811
escapade1814
gammock1819
gambade1821
enfantillage1827
game1828
shines1830
rollick1834
rusty1835
high jinksa1845
escapado1849
shenanigan1855
rum-tum1876
panta1901
gas1914
a1845 R. H. Barham Brothers of Birchington in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 258 High Jinks going on night and day at ‘the court’.
a1845 T. Hood Forge ii Smiling with faces full of glee, As if about to enjoy High Jinks.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. i. 13 All sorts of high jinks go on on the grass plot.
1872 W. H. Dixon W. Penn (rev. ed.) iii. 25 The Navy Gardens were a scene for romps and jinks.
1896 A. D. Coleridge Eton in Forties iv. 295 The high time for jinks was during the Windsor fair.
c. See quot. 1785.
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1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue High Jinks, a gambler at dice, who, having a strong head, drinks to intoxicate his adversary, or pigeon [1823 adds: chaps always on the look out to rob unwary country men at cards, &c.].
d. attributive in form high-jink.
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1853 W. Jerdan Autobiogr. IV. iii. 33 In the midst of these high-jink enjoyments, it must not be thought that the real business..was quite neglected.
e. Hence high-ˈjinking n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [noun]
rampinga1425
daffing1535
May game1571
horseplay1590
hoiting1594
wantonizing1598
roguery1611
romperinga1625
hoity-toity1668
frolicking1676
frolic1677
romping1694
wantoning1701
vagary1791
skylarking1809
larking1813
rollicking1823
high-jinking1891
shenaniganning1924
grab-ass1948
mollocking1959
bants2008
1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Oct. 2/1 On board we were very jovial and had much high jinking.
1904 Daily Chron. 13 July 8/1 It is evening—eight o'clock—and the festival is at its very top notch of high-jinking.
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jinkn.2
/dʒɪŋk/, U.S. /dʒɪŋk/ rare.
The sharp metallic sound of a coin, or the like, striking against a hard substance; transferred (slang) ‘chink’, coin.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun]
mintOE
moneya1325
coin1393
ready money1429
plate?a1439
coinage1467
cunyec1480
cogc1555
table money1565
chinks1577
cash1596
speciesa1618
spetia1620
specie1671
coliander seed1699
coriander-seed1737
shiners1760
jinkc1775
decimal coinage1794
coriander1801
hard currency1816
rowdy1831
Oscar Asche1905
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > [noun] > clink or chink
clinkingc1386
clinkc1540
tink?1576
cling1578
chink1581
chinking1589
jinking1888
jink1898
plink1916
c1775 in Roxburghe Ballads (1890) VII. 85 No race we shall have I think, for C—s is come without his jink.
1898 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin (1900) 126/1 ‘Quid seems to jink all right, anyhow’,..‘though I'm more used to the jink of a tanner than a quid’.
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jinkv.1
/dʒɪŋk/, U.S. /dʒɪŋk/, Scottish English /dʒɪŋk/ Originally Scottish.
1.
a. intransitive. To move with quick sudden action; to move or dart with sudden turns; to move jerkily to and fro. Now esp. in Rugby and Aeronautics; cf. jink n.1 1 to jink in, to make a sudden indirect or clandestine dart in. to jink one's way, to advance by means of jinks.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly and suddenly
windc897
shootc1000
smite?c1225
flatc1300
lash13..
girda1400
shock?a1400
spara1400
spritc1400
whipc1440
skrim1487
glance1489
spang1513
whip1540
squirt1570
flirt1582
fly1590
sprunt1601
flame1633
darta1640
strike1639
jump1720
skite1721
scoot1758
jink1789
arrow1827
twitch1836
skive1854
sprint1899
skyhoot1901
catapult1928
slingshot1969
book1977
1789 R. Burns To Author in D. Sillar Poems 9 Hale be your heart, hale be your fiddle; Lang may your elbuck jink an' diddle.
a1810 R. Tannahill Midges Dance in Poems The merry wren, frae den to den, Gaes jinking through the thorn.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. x. 270 My lord couldna tak it weel your coming blinking and jinking in, in that fashion.
1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge xxi. 380 Jink out of the room, will ye, for I am very drowsy.
1932 Daily Tel. 19 Mar. 17/2 I can see him jinking his way past our mid-field players.
1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags iii. 243 If they come in now from the rear the cars may jink round and give the other companies a chance to get out.
1944 R.A.F. Jrnl. Aug. 288 The aircraft crossed in front of them, jinking steadily at high speed.
1961 R. Jeffries Evidence of Accused i. 14 A rabbit..jinked away under the rhododendron bush.
b. To wheel or fling about in dancing; to dance.
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society > leisure > dancing > [verb (intransitive)]
frikec1000
sail1297
dancec1300
sault1377
tripc1386
balea1400
hopc1405
foota1425
tracec1425
sallyc1440
to dance a fita1500
fling1528
to tread a measure, a dance1577
trip1578
traverse1584
move1594
to shake heels1595
to shake it1595
firk1596
tripudiate1623
pettitoe1651
step1698
jink1718
to stand up1753
bejig1821
to toe and heel (it)1828
morris1861
hoof1925
terp1945
1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green ii. 22 Was n'er in Scotland heard or seen..Sick Dancing, and sic Jinkin.
1804 W. Tarras Poems 12 (Jam.) Then Tullie gart ilk carlie jink it, Till caps an' trenchers rair't and rinkit.
1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders 17 Here we were, jinking hand in hand under the trees in the moonlight.
2. intransitive. To make a quick elusive turn, so as to dodge a pursuer or escape from a guard. Now esp. in Rugby and Aeronautics; cf. jink n.1 1.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > move sideways [verb (intransitive)] > avoid by moving to the side
blencha1250
blenka1330
blinka1400
jouk1513
jink1786
the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [verb (intransitive)] > escape from threat > take evasive action
jouk1513
parry1717
jink1786
right-and-left1856
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > play rugby football [verb (intransitive)] > actions or manoeuvres
pack1874
heel1884
scrum1890
goal1900
drop1905
to give (or sell) the (or a) dummy1907
ruck1910
jinka1914
to drop out1917
fly-kick1930
scissor1935
quick-heel1936
short-punt1937
touch-kick1954
grubber-kick1958
peel1960
corner-flag1962
to chip and chase1970
box kick1977
society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [verb (intransitive)] > make quick elusive turn to avoid pursuer
jink1940
1786 R. Burns Poems 61 But faith! he'll turn a corner jinkan, An' cheat you yet.
1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 154 But Rab slips out, an' jinks about, Behint the muckle thorn.
1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 21 650 He jinks under your elbow, and starts off.
1887 W. Black In Far Lochaber ii Then ye jink round the corner and call it by another name.
1889 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Pigsticking 68 The boar..will often make a feint of jinking to one side, and will dart off in exactly the opposite direction.
1889 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Pigsticking 68 When the boar..sees the spear point being lowered in his direction he will ‘jink’, or suddenly turn sharply to the right or left.
a1914 J. E. Raphael Mod. Rugby Football (1918) 103 This is a method which..should not be copied by the ordinary performer—except perhaps when ‘jinking’.
1927 W. W. Wakefield & H. P. Marshall Rugger 93 A curious jinking side-step.
1940 Aeroplane 30 Aug. 235/2 One example of Air Ministry verbosity is the continual use of the phrase ‘took evasive action’, instead of saying ‘dodged’ or ‘jinked’.
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 18 Apr. 3 You boost and you dive and you jink.
1959 V. Fuchs Antarctic Adventure xii. 169 The visibility was about a hundred yards, but where the tracks jinked sharply right, he closed the throttle.
1963 I. Fleming On Her Majesty's Secret Service xvii. 189 Bond..put on all the speed he could, crouching low and jinking occasionally to spoil the man's aim.
1969 G. MacBeth War Quartet 35 Untailed, I jinked, Flipped over in a half-roll.
1973 Times 1 Jan. 17/2 Hales scored two tries, but I only saw the first of them, and a good one it was as he jinked inside his man.
3. transitive. To elude or escape by dodging; to dodge. Cf. jouk v.2 3.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > cause to move sideways [verb (transitive)] > avoid by moving to the side
dodge1680
jinka1774
jouk1812
sidestep1894
side-slip1921
the world > action or operation > safety > escape > escape from [verb (transitive)] > contrive to escape or evade > a blow, missile, or pursuit
waive1303
voida1500
devoid1509
avoid1530
shuna1586
shift1595
dodge1713
jinka1774
jouk1812
a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 218 There the herds can jink the show'rs 'Mang thriving vines an' myrtle bow'rs.
1889 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Pigsticking 180 In such a way as to cause him to jink his pursuers.
4. To trick, cheat, diddle, swindle.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle
defraud1362
deceivec1380
plucka1500
lurch1530
defeata1538
souse1545
lick1548
wipe1549
fraud1563
use1564
cozen1573
nick1576
verse1591
rooka1595
trim1600
skelder1602
firk1604
dry-shave1620
fiddle1630
nose1637
foista1640
doa1642
sharka1650
chouse1654
burn1655
bilk1672
under-enter1692
sharp1699
stick1699
finger1709
roguea1714
fling1749
swindle1773
jink1777
queer1778
to do over1781
jump1789
mace1790
chisel1808
slang1812
bucket1819
to clean out1819
give it1819
to put in the hole1819
ramp1819
sting1819
victimize1839
financier1840
gum1840
snakea1861
to take down1865
verneuk1871
bunco1875
rush1875
gyp1879
salt1882
daddle1883
work1884
to have (one) on toast1886
slip1890
to do (a person) in the eye1891
sugar1892
flay1893
to give (someone) the rinky-dink1895
con1896
pad1897
screw1900
short-change1903
to do in1906
window dress1913
ream1914
twist1914
clean1915
rim1918
tweedle1925
hype1926
clip1927
take1927
gazump1928
yentz1930
promote1931
to take (someone) to the cleaners1932
to carve up1933
chizz1948
stiff1950
scam1963
to rip off1969
to stitch up1970
skunk1971
to steal (someone) blind1974
diddle-
1777 R. Forbes Ulysses' Answer 15 in Sel. Coll. Sc. Poems For Jove did jink Arcesius.
1832 M. Scott in Blackwood's Mag. 32 22 The gipsy, after all, jinked an old rich goutified coffee-planter.
1885 J. Runciman Skippers & Shellbacks 146 When they find he means to jink them.
5. intransitive (Cards.) To win a game of spoil-five or forty-five by taking all the tricks in one hand.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [verb (intransitive)] > actions in specific games > in spoil-fire
jink1887
1887 Standard Hoyle 221 [article Spoil-five] Sometimes spoils are dispensed with altogether, and the game is made a fixed number (either twenty-five or forty-five),..at Twenty-five or Forty-five who wins all five tricks wins the game. This is called jinking it. Properly the jink belongs only to these games, but sometimes by agreement jinking is allowed at Spoil-five.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
jinkv.2
/dʒɪŋk/, U.S. /dʒɪŋk/ transitive and intransitive. To chink; to make, or cause to make, a short metallic sound.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > ring [verb (intransitive)] > clink or chink
clinkc1386
clinchc1440
twinka1529
chink1589
to cry clink1607
jink1828
plink1877
clink-clank1921
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > ring [verb (transitive)] > clink or chink
clinkc1386
chink1728
jink1828
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Jink, to chink or jingle.
1848 Fraser's Mag. 38 83 A dog barked, and jinked his chain upon the stones.
1898 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin (1900) 126/1 ‘Quid seems to jink all right, anyhow’,..‘though I'm more used to the jink of a tanner than a quid’.
Derivatives
jinking n.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > [noun] > clink or chink
clinkingc1386
clinkc1540
tink?1576
cling1578
chink1581
chinking1589
jinking1888
jink1898
plink1916
1888 A. Rives Quick or Dead (1889) 20 An old spinet..from which Miss Fridiswig used to coax forth ghastly jinkings (this spinet could not utter anything so liquid as a jingle).
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