Meaning

Mischievous play, especially by children..

Definitions by Sense

1. Mischievous play, especially by children.
2. Deceitful tricks; trickery; games.
3. Strange, unusual, weird, or wacky occurrences.
4. plural of shenanigan.
5. third-person singular simple present indicative of shenanigan

Example Sentences

Shanti and Tom are playing noisily upstairs again. They’re up to their usual shenanigans.

Well, I'm not the woman to stand any shenanigans from a child of mine. I could name you dead loads of women that are just completely walked over by their children.

You should learn to spot their shenanigans and avoid being fooled.

The advertisement said it would cost $50, but they charged me $75 at the register. I declare shenanigans.

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.

There are stories still told how money was used and promised, but from the best knowledge I can acquire, I think this is not true. If sharp practice was played, and "shenanigan" was used, we, to-day, looking back upon those times, cannot say that evil has come of it.

And you remember that she is a pal of ours, and you're to act like a gentleman, no shenanigans, or I'll skin you alive!

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.

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