jinx

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Something I wanted to bring up once Obama won the election - but didn't want to "jinx" - if you know what I mean.

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  1. noun A person or thing that is believed to bring bad luck.
  2. noun A condition or period of bad luck that appears to have been caused by a specific person or thing.
  3. transitive verb To bring bad luck to.

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  • Just the other day, while  chatting with Feministing's Jessica Valenti, I said as much when talking more generally about lady blogs and we both -- jinx, 1-2-3 -- asked the same rhetorical question: Don't we have anything better to talk about?
  • Caroline was his jinx, and she was about to be removed. —  THE ANASTASIA SYNDROME AND OTHER STORIES
  • While not involved in those sorts of hi-jinx, Rinck finds time to play Stooges covers in a Blues band on the wharves of Nairobi. —  Wired Top Stories
  • I'm sure you've heard the Heisman jinx, the guy who wins doesn't win the Bowl game. —  GatorCountry.com - Latest Headlines
  • The rest of the world has abandoned Davis as a jinx, who in her brief career has bankrupted a string of theater producers. —  magic-city-news.com
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  1. Possibly from jynx, wryneck (from its use in witchcraft), from Latin iynx, from Greek iunx, perhaps from iuzein, to call, cry.
 

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