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shenans

shenans is the contraction of shenanigans.

Meaning of shenanigans

Noun

shenanigans pl (normally plural, singular shenanigan)

  1. (plural, plural-normally) Mischievous play, especially by children.
    • Shanti and Tom are playing noisily upstairs again. They’re up to their usual shenanigans.
    Synonyms:
    high jinks, hijinks
  2. (plural, plural-normally) Deceitful tricks; trickery; games.
    • You should learn to spot their shenanigans and avoid being fooled.
  3. (plural, plural-normally) Strange, unusual, weird, or wacky occurrences.
    • "I'm sorry, but I'm not going to devote any of tonight's news to evil monkey shenanigans unless you can find something more down to earth to focus your report on."2009 January 20, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Tuesday, Jan 20, 2009

Questions about shenans

What is shenans the contraction of?
Shenans is the contraction of shenanigans.

Words near shenans in the dictionary

  1. shenaniganned
  2. shenaniganning
  3. shenaniganry
  4. shenanigans
  5. shenanigous
  6. shenans
  7. Shenberger
  8. Shenbergers
  9. Shenchi
  10. shend
  11. shende

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shenans (page history and authors); shenanigans (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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