shenaniganning

Verb

shenanigan (third-person singular simple present shenanigans, present participle shenaniganing or shenaniganning, simple past and past participle shenaniganed or shenaniganned)

1. (informal, transitive) To play a deceitful confidence trick on (someone); to swindle, to trick; also, to carry out an act of mischief on (someone); to prank.
   • The habit of "shenaniganing" has become so disgracefully common at Union college that some of the right minded students have passed resolutions condemning the practice in unqualified terms. We are happy to inform the friends of Michigan University that this unmusical word, which, translated means...1872 October 19, “Notes on the College Press and so forth”, in The Chronicle, volume IV, number II, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Students of the University of Michigan, →OCLC, page 24, column 2
2. (informal, intransitive) To play a deceitful confidence trick; also, to carry out an act of mischief.
   • Then after much shenaniganing around over a period of several weeks […] we came into the committee room after this "night study" which I understand too place, and some of the Members had the bill we are now considering in a mimeographed form and some of us did not have it.1964 February 6, Basil Whitener, “Civil Rights Act of 1963”, in Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 88th Congress, Second Session (United States House of Representatives), volume...

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