shenanigans
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shenanigan
Middle English -es
English -s
English shenanigans
From shenanigan + -s.
Inflected forms:
form: shenanigan
pos: noun
tags: singular
Senses:
gloss: Mischievous play, especially by children.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-normally
examples: Shanti and Tom are playing noisily upstairs again. They’re up to their usual shenanigans.
Well, I'm not the woman to stand any shenanigans from a child of mine. I could name you dead loads of women that are just completely walked over by their children.
gloss: Deceitful tricks; trickery; games.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-normally
examples: You should learn to spot their shenanigans and avoid being fooled.
The advertisement said it would cost $50, but they charged me $75 at the register. I declare shenanigans.
One of Professor [John] Moon's most astonishing "experiments," consisted of holding a watch suspended from a short chain at arm's length, and allowing anyone in the pit to pull pistol and "blaze away" at the word "fire," whereupon the watch would most unconscionably disappear. An individual who had attended several evenings and witnessed the "experiment," suspected, in the classic language of the times, that there was something of "shenanigan" in it.
There are stories still told how money was used and promised, but from the best knowledge I can acquire, I think this is not true. If sharp practice was played, and "shenanigan" was used, we, to-day, looking back upon those times, cannot say that evil has come of it.
And you remember that she is a pal of ours, and you're to act like a gentleman, no shenanigans, or I'll skin you alive!
On the table top behind him lay the letter from the Vatican. It was what he had dreaded. Shenanigans like that don't go for long unnoticed. Canon Tom may have provided the Church with a touch of class, but when the chips were down, he was expendable.
FDA [Food and Drug Administration] commissioner Scott Gottlieb yesterday called on brand name drug companies to "end the shenanigans" that restrict generic drug competition, specifically pointing to the tactic of slow-playing shared Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) terms intended to prevent generic manufacturers from purchasing drug products needed to run bioequivalence or bioavailability studies that FDA approval requires.
In a panel discussion at BuzzFeed's office, Oscar-winner Meryl Streep told "The Post" director Steven Spielberg and co-star Tom Hanks that settlements like those paid to Harvey Weinstein's accusers would not have been necessary if more women held positions of power. "If the boards of the company were half female, there wouldn't ever have been payoffs to anybody," Streep said. "None of this – the shenanigans wouldn't have occurred."
It shouldn't take much imagination to see why the forced dismissal of Congress by the president would be the most truly of nuclear shenanigans and the fallout would affect, like every part of the government. But that's the sort of thing that can happen when shenanigans infinitely escalate.
gloss: Strange, unusual, weird, or wacky occurrences.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-normally
examples: "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."
Derived words: shenaniganry
shenaniganery
shenans
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