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Jinx   /dʒɪŋks/   Listen
verb
jinx  v. t.  To bring bad luck to; to cause to malfunction or go wrong; as, some superstitious people are reluctant to predict success for fear it will jinx them. (Slang)


noun
jinx  n.  A person, object, influence, or supernatural being which is supposed to bring bad luck or to cause things to go wrong. (Slang)





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"Jinx" Quotes from Famous Books



... scattered all over Jinx land, which is not a very big country, and their sharp eyes were peering into every valley and grove and gully. Finally one of them spied a pair of heels sticking out from underneath some bushes, and with a shrill whistle to ...
— The Scarecrow of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... use!" it was the custom of his grandfather to say. "There's not a bit o' use in having brains! All they do is get you into trouble! A lucky idiot's ten times better off than a brainy man with a jinx on him! A smart man starts thinkin', and he thinks himself into a jail cell if his luck is bad, and good luck's wasted on him because it ain't reasonable and he don't believe in it when it happens! It's taken me ...
— The Pirates of Ersatz • Murray Leinster


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