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jinx

[ jingks ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to bring bad luck to; curse:

    According to tradition, wishing an actor “good luck” before a show will jinx their performance.

    That place on the corner seems jinxed—no business ever stays there for long.

  2. to destroy the point of:

    His sudden laugh jinxed the host's joke.



noun

  1. a person, thing, or influence supposed to bring bad luck:

    They said I was a jinx, because every time I came to see them play, they lost.

interjection

  1. (used after two people say exactly the same thing at exactly the same time):

    I’ll drive—jinx! Great minds think alike!

jinx

/ dʒɪŋks /

noun

  1. an unlucky or malevolent force, person, or thing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. tr to be or put a jinx on
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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  • out·jinx verb (used with object)
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Word History and Origins

Origin of jinx1

An Americanism first recorded in 1910–15; perhaps from Latin jynx “wryneck” (bird used in divination and magic), from Greek íynx, perhaps from or akin to iýzein “to shout, yell”
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Word History and Origins

Origin of jinx1

C20: perhaps from New Latin Jynx genus name of the wryneck, from Greek iunx wryneck, the name of a bird used in magic
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Example Sentences

Even as I confess this, I worry about the jinx I am placing on my rituals.

From Time

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Is it a jinx, like being put on the cover of Sports Illustrated?

I helped make the ads; it was too late for a sea change, but late enough to break the midterm jinx.

Stolen By Jinx Jamison and Minx Malone The Madame X School of Sex series of short ebooks are steamy cheap buys.

Once was unlucky, twice looked like an evil jinx, a curse, an astrological conspiracy.

Only a jinx of the most malevolent type could have prompted his hurried exit from a train to dodge an imaginary "bull."

The other night I took a walk, and called on Jinx, across the block.

The home of Jinx was full of boys and girls and forty kinds of noise.

“Worst jinx in the world to see a cross-eyed man,” I replied.

One adopted the plan of "expecting disappointment" as a means of cheating the "jinx."

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