jinx : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: jinx	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for jinx
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
jinx n a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him Synonym(s): jonah, jinx an evil spell; "a witch put a curse on his whole family"; "he put the whammy on me" Synonym(s): hex, jinx, curse, whammy v cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something Synonym(s): hex, bewitch, glamour, witch, enchant, jinx foredoom to failure; "This project is jinxed!"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jinx \Jinx\, n. A person, object, influence, or supernatural being which is supposed to bring bad luck or to cause things to go wrong. [Slang]