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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of jink.

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Examples

  • Lowering his spear-point the Maharajah bent forward in the saddle; but at the last moment the pig "jinked," that is, turned sharply at right angles to his former course, and bounded away untouched, while the baffled sportsman was carried on helplessly by his excited horse.

    The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly

  • They dodged the blows aimed at them, and "jinked" round the bushes as if they had been trained to such work in a regular public school for human bipeds, and they struck out with their pinions, too, so deftly and with such force that the pursuers had to become extremely cautious as well as bold in their approaches.

    The Pioneers 1859

  • With the instincts of the survivor, Aidan twisted and jinked, using the close confines of the kitchen to dodge the follow-up attack.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • My Japanese pilot rose up to meet the oncoming Wildcat, jinked left through a cloud bank when it became clear I was setting him up to be riddled with bullets, flew parallel to the Allied plane (see “pilots wave at each other” in the slideshow), did a barrel roll to reverse and fly straight to gain altitude, another reverse, and then a series of complicated hard right turns.

    An Aerodrome 2.0 game at Fall IN! Somewhere over the Pacific… « Third Point of Singularity 2009

  • Brees jinked nicely around the pocket for that pass.

    New Orleans Saints 45 Detroit Lions 28 - as it happened 2012

  • With the instincts of the survivor, Aidan twisted and jinked, using the close confines of the kitchen to dodge the follow-up attack.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • With the instincts of the survivor, Aidan twisted and jinked, using the close confines of the kitchen to dodge the follow-up attack.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • McCourt jinked inside two visiting defenders before supplying a cool, curling finish.

    Celtic 1-0 Motherwell | Scottish Premier League match report 2010

  • Following the skipper, Ensign Ernest E. Hutto jinked his way through bursting flak, looking for the target.

    Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

  • Brazil defenders surrounding him, he jinked right, then left and drifted a little more left before firing a low drive across Victor's bows and into the bottom right-hand corner.

    Argentina 1-0 Brazil - as it happened Barry Glendenning 2010

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