jinking

Verb

jink (third-person singular simple present jinks, present participle jinking, simple past and past participle jinked)

1. (intransitive) To make a quick evasive turn or turns to confuse pursuers, incoming fire, etc.
   • But faith! he'll turn a corner jinkin, / An' cheat you yet.1786, Robert Burns, “Address to the Devil”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, volume I
2. (transitive) To cause a vehicle to make a quick evasive turn.
   • Jink it he did. Norton pushed the aircraft left just as he was at the bottom of his loop.2000, Mack Maloney, Shuttle Down, →ISBN
3. (intransitive) In the games of spoilfive and forty-five, to win the game by taking all five tricks; also, to attempt to win all five tricks, losing what has been already won if unsuccessful.
4. To elude; to cheat.
5. To clink or chink against.
   • So they put on a bit of extra pace and were nearly through that section when they heard voices coming out of a clump of bushes and the sound of plates being jinked together.1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 72

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