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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To make a quick, evasive turn: "He jinked every five seconds, and now brought his tank left again” ( Tom Clancy).
  2. v. To cause (a vehicle or an aircraft, for example) to make a quick, evasive turn.
  3. n. A quick, evasive turn.
  4. n. Rambunctious play; frolic.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To move nimbly.
  2. To make a quick turn; dodge; elude a person by dodging; escape.
  3. In the card-games of spoil-five and forty-five, to win the game by winning all the tricks in one hand.
  4. To elude; dodge.
  5. To cheat; trick.
  6. n. A quick illusory turn; the act of eluding another.
  7. n. In the card-games of spoil-five and forty-five, the winning of all the tricks in a hand by one side.
  8. To jingle; chink: as, the money jinked.
  9. n. The sharp jingle of coins; hence, coin itself; chink.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A quick evasive turn.
  2. v. intransitive To make a quick evasive turn.
  3. v. transitive To cause a vehicle to make a quick evasive turn.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To move quickly, esp. with a sudden turn; hence, to dodge; to escape by a quick turn; -- obs. or dial., except as a hunting term in pig-sticking.
  2. v. (Card Playing) In the games of spoilfive and forty-five, to win the game by taking all five tricks; also, to play to win all five tricks, losing what has been already won if unsuccessful.

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  • john “As he dived in on the target in his A-4, his surface-to-air missile warning system sounded: A SAM had a lock on him. ‘I knew I should roll out and fly evasive maneuvers,’ McCain writes. ‘The A-4 is a small, fast’ aircraft that ‘can outmaneuver a tracking SAM.’

    But McCain didn't ‘jink.’ Instead, he stayed on target and let fly his bombs — just as the SAM blew his wing off.�?

    Rolling Stone, Make-Believe Maverick, by Tim Dickinson, October 6, 2008 Oct 6, 2008

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