Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person or thing that is believed to bring bad luck.
- noun A condition or period of bad luck that appears to have been caused by a specific person or thing.
- transitive verb To bring bad luck to.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Slang A person, object, influence, or supernatural being which is supposed to bring bad luck or to cause things to go wrong.
- transitive verb Slang To bring bad luck to; to cause to malfunction or go wrong.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
hex ; anevil spell . - noun A person or thing supposed to bring
bad luck . - verb transitive To
cast aspell on. - verb transitive To bring
bad luck to. - interjection Used after the same response is said by two people simultaneously. Often, a game is played where the person who failed to say "jinx" first becomes "jinxed", whereby they cannot speak until someone says their name.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an evil spell
- verb foredoom to failure
- noun a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him
- verb cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The year 2009 also saw Arvind Bhat break the title jinx at the National championship after four abortive finals, when he beat P Kashyap in the summit clash in Indore.
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Zedillo wanted at all costs to avoid the sixth-year, end-of-term jinx that has befallen every Mexican president since Luis Echeverria in 1976.
The End Of The Road? 2008
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Hey listen, this is just the second-term jinx that always happens once you're a president.
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KING: But if Republicans defy the traditional midterm jinx, the reasons extend beyond the President's aggressive campaigning.
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"Don't forget that thing you call a jinx, which you say has been camping on our trail for so long."
Escape on Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1963
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It became known as a jinx: if Bale was in the side, the stats suggested, Spurs wouldn't win.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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It became known as a jinx: if Bale was in the side, the stats suggested, Spurs wouldn't win.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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It became known as a jinx: if Bale was in the side, the stats suggested, Spurs wouldn't win.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Defying the second-term jinx, he vastly simplified the federal tax code, discharging millions of low-income Americans from taxpaying obligations altogether.
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Defying the second-term jinx, he vastly simplified the federal tax code, discharging millions of low-income Americans from taxpaying obligations altogether.
oroboros commented on the word jinx
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August 24, 2009