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hinky adjective- nervous, anxious US, 1956
- They make you hinky. What’s their secret? you always wonder. — Joseph Wambaugh, The New Centurions, p. 127, 1970
- My aide thought he looked hinky and coup-wise, so he kept an eye on him. — James Ellroy, Because the Night, p. 484, 1984
- I think it’s too hinky for a crackpot. — Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, p. 54, 1986
- [A]round the time Carlisle got hinky, J.C. told Dudley that Stemmons was acting crazy[.] — James Ellroy, White Jazz, p. 304, 1992
- You seem a little hinked up. — Gone in 60 Seconds, 2000
- suspicious US, 1975
- I was always hinky about a couple of things. I never sold to sexy-looking prostitutes, for example. — Phil Hirsch, Hooked, p. 19, 1968
- My father later told me he first suspected something was hinky with my mom when he found a book in bag she packed for a trip with her new friend she’d moved into my vacated room. — David Henry Sterry, Chicken, p. 16, 2002
- [H]e didn’t want him getting jumpy enough to switch seats and bail if he thought there anything hinky about the deal. — Christopher Brookmyre, The Sacred Art of Stealing, p. 20, 2002
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