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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

high jinks

Playful or rowdy activity, often involving mischievous pranks. For example, All sorts of high jinks go on at summer camp after "lights out." About 1700 this term denoted a gambling game accompanied by much drinking, but by the mid-1800s it acquired its present meaning.

See also: high