jinxnoun [ S ]
uk/dʒɪŋks/us/dʒɪŋks/bad luck, or a person or thing that is believed to bring bad luck:
There's a jinx on this computer – it's crashed three times this morning!
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Good luck and bad luck
- a blessing in disguise idiom
- bad/hard/tough luck! idiom
- be a good idiom
- be bad luck on sb idiom
- be down on your luck idiom
- blessing
- favour
- godsend
- grace
- hapless
- happenstance
- happily
- lap
- mischance
- misfortune
- mishap
- mixed blessing
- Murphy's law
- shame
- stroke
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jinxverb [ T ]
/dʒɪŋks/uk/dʒɪŋks//dʒɪŋks/informalto cause a person or group to experience bad luck:
I thought we would win, but I didn't say so – I didn't want to jinx it.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Good luck and bad luck
- a blessing in disguise idiom
- bad/hard/tough luck! idiom
- be a good idiom
- be bad luck on sb idiom
- be down on your luck idiom
- blessing
- favour
- godsend
- grace
- hapless
- happenstance
- happily
- lap
- mischance
- misfortune
- mishap
- mixed blessing
- Murphy's law
- shame
- stroke
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jinxed
adjective uk/dʒɪŋkst/us/dʒɪŋkst/
I must be jinxed - whenever I wash a wine glass, it breaks.