Hijinks

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Hijinks

Definition: Hijinks

Hijinks

Noun

1. Noisy and mischievous merrymaking.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonyms: Hijinks

Synonyms: high jinks (n), high jinx (n), jinks (n). (additional references)

Commercial Usage: Hijinks

Domain	Title
Books	Goldsworthy and Mort in Holiday Hijinks (reference) Haunted House Hijinks! (reference) Louisiana Polotical Hijinks (reference) Reality Check!: Super Information Hijinks (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Bugs Bunny's Halloween Hijinks (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hijinks

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
hijinks	6
hijinks office	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Rhyming with "Hijinks"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "hijinks" (pronounced hi"jingks)
4	-i ng k s	hyperlinks, larynx, nasopharynx, pharynx, tiddlywinks.
3	-ng k s	banks, blanks, blinks, brinks, bunks, chinks, chunks, clunks, cranks, drinks, drunks, dunks, finks, flanks, flunks, francs, Franks, funks, Hanks, hunks, inks, jinks, jinx, kinks, links, Lynx, minks, monks, phalanx, pinks, planks, pranks, punks, ranks, rinks, shanks, shrinks, sinks, skinks, skunks, sphinx, stinks, tanks, thanks, thinks, trunks, winks, yanks.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Anagrams: Hijinks

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "h-i-i-j-k-n-s"
	-2 letters: jinks, knish.
	-3 letters: hins, hisn, inks, jink, jins, khis, kins, nisi, shin, sinh, sink, skin.
	-4 letters: hin, his, ink, ins, jin, khi, kin, sin, ski.
	-5 letters: hi, in, is, sh, si.
	Words containing the letters "h-i-i-j-k-n-s"
	+3 letters: hijackings, jinricksha, jinrikisha.
	+4 letters: jinrickshas, jinrikishas.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: Hijinks

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 69 6A 69 6E 6B 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01101001 01101010 01101001 01101110 01101011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#105 &#106 &#105 &#110 &#107 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0069 006A 0069 006E 006B 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

42757675807785

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet

5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography

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