shenanigans

shenanigans englanniksi

1. Mischievous play, especially by children. (defdate)

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2. (quote-book)

3. Deceitful tricks; trickery; games. (defdate)

4. (quote-journal)|month=September|year=1855|volume=IV|issue=9|page=280|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=7JFRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA280|oclc=32423418|passage=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.

5. (quote-book)|year=1993|page=125|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=2BpXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA125|isbn=978-0-00-654573-6|passage=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.

6. (quote-web)&93; commissioner (w) 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.

7. (quote-web)'s office, Oscar-winner (w) told "(w)" director (w) and co-star (w) that settlements like those paid to (w)'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."

8. Strange, unusual, weird, or wacky occurrences.

9. (monikko) en|shenanigan.