MEANING
A person, thing, or influence believed to bring bad luck.
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Words that belong together
- a supposed jinx
- put a jinx on something
On the page
They called the broken instrument a jinx after the third failed departure.
She refused to treat the newcomer as a jinx simply because the storm arrived with him.
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Word forms
- Base
- jinx
- Past tense
- jinxed
- Past participle
- jinxed
- Present participle
- jinxing
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular jinx; plural jinxes. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: jinxes.
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