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.

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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. Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context 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. Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context			herring hesitate hesitate over het up hew hew down hew out of hew to hidden hidden agenda hide hide a multitude of sins hide away hide behind hide face in shame hide from hide head in the sand hide in hide light under a bushel hide nor hair hide out high high and dry high and mighty high as a kite high jinks high man on the totem pole high muck-a-muck high roller high-and-mighty high-pressure into highly highly-strung hightail it out of highway highway robbery highways and byways hike hike up hill him himself hind hind end hinder from hindmost hindside first hinge on hint hint at hint for			High Intensity Runway Light High Intensity Runway Lighting System High Intensity Runway Operations High Intensity Signal High Intensity Step-Up Lighting High Intensity Strobe Light High Intensity Substance Abuse Program High intensity training High Intensity Transient Signals High Intensity War High Intensity Zone high interest High Interest Deposit Bond High Interest Grid High Interest Money Market Account High Interest Target High Interest Target List High Interest Track High Interest Vessel High Internal Phase Emulsion High Internal Phase Ratio Emulsion High Iron Diamine Alcian Blue High Iron Diamine and Alcian Blue High Island Offshore System, LLC high jinks high jinx High Jugular Bulb high jump high jump high jump high jumper high jumper high jumpers high jumpers high K and high glutathione high K and low glutathione High key high kilovoltage radiograph high kilovoltage radiograph high kilovoltage radiograph High kirk High kirk High Knoll Equestrian Center high kVp technique high kVp technique high kVp technique high kVp technique high labial arch high labial arch high labial arch high labial arch high labial arch High Labor Cost Countries High Land High Land

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