1911 Chicago Daily News 19 Sept. 6/3 Dave Shean and ‘Peaches’ Graham..have not escaped the jinx that has been following the champions.

1912 C. Mathewson Pitching in Pinch xi. 232 A jinx is something which brings bad luck to a ball-player.

1919 Oxf. Mag. 7 Mar. Will some one remove the jinx? On Friday, February 28, we lost to Oriel and Merton by 3 goals to nil. On Saturday, March 1,..we lost to Queen's by 1–0.

1926 M. Anderson & L. Stallings What Price Glory? iii, in 3 Amer. Plays 88 This town is a jinx for me.

1927 A. Miller Colfax Bk.-plate xiv. 172 I thrust that jinx of a book back into the lowest left-hand drawer.

1928 Wisconsin Alumni Mag. Dec. 79 Once realizing that the jinx had been broken,..there was no hesitation.

1931 Collier's 26 Sept. 57/3 They say he is a jinx to them and they cannot beat him in any manner, shape, or form.

1932 J. T. Farrell Young Lonigan iv. 157 Young Corbett who was born with a horse shoe in his hands..put a jinx on Terrible Terry.

1948 A. Menjou & M. M. Musselman It took Nine Tailors 96 There has never been such a jinx picture as that one.

1955 E. Pound Classic Anthol. iii. 179 Jinx on the remnants everywhere.

1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Jan. 41/4 The family jinx, in this case dark strangers who erupt into the bourgeois marriages of three generations, leaving behind an illegitimate child and the torturing memory of a bliss that might have been.

1962 Times 19 Feb. 3/7 A jinx-ridden Thomas somehow contrived to miss the kick.

1969 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 30 Nov. 8/4 A man and two boys went fishing Friday, and Mary went along. The boat capsized, and apparently she alone survived. ‘I'm either a jinx, or very lucky,’ she says.

1972 ‘E. Lathen’ Murder without Icing (1973) xxiii. 198 I'm beginning to think that damned team is a jinx... It's been a bad-luck team from the beginning.

1912 C. Mathewson Pitching in Pinch xi. 244 He outjinxed our champion jinx killer.]

1917 Amer. Mag. Apr. 43/1 What do you mean—humming love songs when their darn pitcher is forcing in runs? You jinxed my ball club.

1934 J. T. Farrell Young Manhood Studs Lonigan iv. 61 I know they ain't loaded. But use these ones. Them damn things is jinxed!

1946 E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh iii. 170 I's an ole gamblin' man and I knows bad luck when I feels it!.. But it's white man's bad luck. He can't jinx me!

1956 D. Barnham One Man's Window 26 He told me he was ‘jinxed’. He explained that on his last three trips [in a fighter aircraft] he had been in trouble.

1962 ‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed xi. 73 I'm jinxed. No fix. All blew up.

1972 G. Durrell Catch me Colobus vii. 152 I'm damned if I'm going to take up all my animals and myself and my wife in a jinxed plane. No, I'm afraid I'll have to get another charter flight.

1973 Psychoanal. Study of Child 28 241 When several children are talking and playing, and two children happen to say the same word or the same phrase at the same time, one will immediately exclaim: ‘Jinx’.

1989 H. L. Leonard in J. L. Rapoport Obsessive-compulsive Disorder in Children & Adolescents xvii. 291 When..two of them happen to say the same word or phrase at the same time, one will say ‘jinx’. Whichever child is able to say this first is in control, and the jinxed child must remain silent. The jinxed child is only freed when his or her name is called by the jinxer or another child.

2014 Z. Sugg Girl Online (2016) xlii. 317 ‘What's happened?’ we both say at exactly the same time. ‘Jinx!’ we both say at exactly the same time.