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- verb Present participle of
jinx .
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Examples
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"I don't believe in 'jinxing' things but I'm pretty cynical."
At Will Leitch's Party in Cobble Hill, Obama Supporters and Exit Polls [UPDATED] 2008
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"I don't believe in 'jinxing' things but I'm pretty cynical."
At Will Leitch's Party in Cobble Hill, Obama Supporters and Exit Polls [UPDATED] 2008
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Not jinxing, like committing some bad luck juju jinxing - as in "I don't want to jinx it, but …" No, the kind of jinxing where you say something at the same time as someone else, then yell, "JINX!"
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I almost think that you're kind of jinxing yourself.
unknown title 2009
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I can certainly understand your desire to avoid "jinxing" your relationship by speaking in tentative, qualified, thoroughly scrubbed middle-of-the-road adjectives.
LisaBinDaCity 2008
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has a theory about why she's been blamed for "jinxing" the Dallas Cowboys: the color pink.
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Grrrr. But on a better note -- and at the risk of sounding not only like a pretentious wanker but of jinxing myself -- I'm really proud of my second Star Wars novel.
Just stopping by to say ... karenmiller 2009
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Almost everything I†™ ve said I was going to do, even to one friend, it turned out to be jinxing myself ....... something I was going to write, some habit I was going to break.
Achieve Your Goals By Keeping Them Quiet | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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So we all went March Madness crazy in Jake's face—howling, jinxing, trying to unnerve him.
Is It Time for Golf to Feel the Noise? Jason Gay 2011
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The litter box discipline has remained a lot better (though I hope Iam not jinxing myself by saying so).
still more puppy fix arcaedia 2010
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