high jinks

NOUN
  1. noisy and mischievous merrymaking
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How To Use high jinks In A Sentence

  • There was a lot of high jinks and pillow fights. Times, Sunday Times
  • It may be a classic but it's a naff classic, surely: Harry Potter may have given boarding school life a shot in the arm but tales of fagging and prep-time high jinks are hardly the stuff of progressive drama.
  • The high jinks consist of handcuffing themselves to the mace in the House of Assembly, or blocking the Prime Minister's path and getting arrested and quietly let go.
  • It's a comedy rule, it seems, that the louder you can say a line or caterwaul in reaction to some hoary bit of high jinks, the more uproarious the moment becomes. Theater review: 'Fox on the Fairway' at Signature Theatre
  • It has not always been high jinks, though. Times, Sunday Times
  • The opening allegro crackled with masculine high jinks.
  • There was a lot of high jinks and pillow fights. Times, Sunday Times
  • ‘I didn't have any leftover time,’ she recalled tartly, ‘for high jinks.’
  • But behind the high jinks and the fun lay a serious purpose. Times, Sunday Times
  • He said that there are more students from comprehensive schools and that they are quieter, enjoy fewer high jinks and take some weeks to settle in. Times, Sunday Times
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