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high jinks |
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high jinks excited and often silly behaviour when people are enjoying themselves. They were dancing on the tables and getting up to all sorts of high jinks. See also: high |
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This amusement is superintended by the Friar, according to the recurrence of certain fustian words, to be repeated by every compotator in turn before he drank---a species of High Jinks, as it were, by which they regulated their potations, as toasts were given in latter times. There he found the eleven at high jinks after supper, Jack Raggles shouting comic songs and performing feats of strength, and was greeted by a chorus of mingled remonstrance at his desertion and joy at his reappearance. |
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