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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of jinx.

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  • adjective (usually used colloquially) causing or accompanied by misfortune

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Examples

  • Their comments and questions have encouraged me to do some research and write follow-up columns about two of the teams I "jinxed" - the four-man softball team, the King and His Court, and the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team.

    unknown title 2009

  • “That name jinxed it, if you ask me,” McCoy continued with a smirk.

    Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light David R. George III 2010

  • As for the movie being "jinxed" that is just so much malarky!

    Sound Off: The Dark Knight - What Did You Think?! « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • But I must agree with "jinxed" below, it's a war that has been going on for decades now.

    Steven Weber: The War on Hope 2010

  • I sort of can't decide if you're kind of jinxed or if you're just incredibly lucky.

    CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2005 2005

  • There was not a man in the Academy who would set foot inside the "jinxed" ship.

    Sabotage in Space Carey Rockwell

  • Asked if Discovery was "jinxed," given the problems that have repeatedly delayed the veteran orbiter this week, Leinbach said "it's a machine, and every now and then, machines break, and right now, our machine is broken, and we need to go fix it."

    CNET News.com 2010

  • Manage Britney Spears 'Facebook, Twitter, Harvard Degree Required Britney leaves' jinxed 'home behind and moves into $9m mansion as she starts afresh Robert Pattinson gets in trouble for cutting his trademark locks.

    WeSmirch 2009

  • Jessica Simpson, the preacher's daughter from Abilene, Texas, is fighting back against unflattering tabloid portrayals and accusations that she "jinxed" her Dallas Cowboys quarterback boyfriend, Tony Romo.

    The Latest From VanityFair.com photographs by Mario Testino 2009

  • With so many homes on the market and so many foreclosures, the Naples area has developed "a black eye" nationally and lenders seem to feel that "everything down here is kind of jinxed,"

    unknown title 2008

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