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n. A person or thing that is believed to bring bad luck.

n. A condition or period of bad luck that appears to have been caused by a specific person or thing.

v. To bring bad luck to.

n. A hex; an evil spell.

n. A person or thing supposed to bring bad luck.

v. To cast a spell on.

v. To bring bad luck to.

interjection. Used after the same response is said by two people simultaneously. Often, a game is played where the person who failed to say "jinx" first becomes "jinxed", whereby they cannot speak until someone says their name.

n. A person, object, influence, or supernatural being which is supposed to bring bad luck or to cause things to go wrong.

v. To bring bad luck to; to cause to malfunction or go wrong.

n. an evil spell

v. foredoom to failure

n. a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him

v. cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something

"The year 2009 also saw Arvind Bhat break the title jinx at the National championship after four abortive finals, when he beat P Kashyap in the summit clash in Indore."

jinxed    jinxes    jinxing   

charm    magic spell    magical spell    spell    preordain    foreordain    predestine    unfortunate    unfortunate person   

reverse jinx   

snap   

Chinks    Lynx    Sphinx    blinks    brinks    chinks    drinks    finks    inks    jinks   

66-year-old    sword-stroke    gremlin    unacted    interpret    hex-    demy    hoodoo    leprechaun    mutuality