"hi-jinx" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2011, Kim Newman, “Postscript: The Post-modern Horror Film”, in Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen since the 1960s, revised edition, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, part 1 (Nightmare Movies), page 288",
          "text": "Day of the Dead stretches the zombie film just about as far as it can go – and the film [George Andrew] Romero wanted to make could have been even more challenging – but the horror movie audience is more interested in the partying hi-jinx of trendy monsters like [Dan] O'Bannon's funky zombies, Freddy Krueger or Herbert West.",
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          "ref": "2014 August 27, Kent Bell, “Hi-jinx Stories”, in Look Ma, No Hands, No Legs Either, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, page 41",
          "text": "Even though I have no arms or legs I did put my mom through some tough times. I did my share of rebellion and hi-jinx.",
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          "ref": "2014, I. G. Armstrong, Slaughtering Butterflies, page 158",
          "text": "He had no idea what was going on up there at the house, hoped it was no more than some trivial case of assault or some drunken sexual hi-jinx – but his sense of discomfort, bordering at times on dread – would not go away.",
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