hanky-panky

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So I told Karina, "If they're going to give us comments about hanky-panky, let's give them hanky-panky!"

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  • "Since we didn't have to cook [at night], it left time for hanky-panky!" she says, adding that it's "the best invention since the microwave for busy women who want a home-cooked meal." —  Celebrity Mound
  • All of this sentence makes me cringe, but the hanky-panky and, oh, never mind. —  Crazy Days and Nights
  • Also, the department at large and many of the coaches for the men's teams were guilty of some financial hanky-panky, including: —  FOXSports.com News
  • As Gibbons was taking office two years ago he was accused of playing hanky-panky with an attractive cocktail waitress in a Las Vegas parking garage. —  Nevada Appeal - Top Stories
  • You do the hanky-panky and you smear the other guy —  Israelated - English Israel blogs
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  1. Alteration of hokey-pokey, alteration of hocus-pocus.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. A riming imitation of the meaningless formulas of jugglery. Cf. hocus-pocus, hoky-poky, etc.
 

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