Synonyms for hanky-panky
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Noun
1. Monkey business — amorous behaviour, making out, necking, sex or other sexual activity, especially if illicit
skulduggery, skullduggery US, trickery, hocus-pocus, monkey business informal, slickness, jiggery-pokery
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Definitions
- n. 1
Amorous behaviour, making out, necking, sex or other sexual activity, especially if illicit.
Related words
- Other spellings
- hankey-pankey hanky panky
Forms
- Plural
- hanky-pankies → skulduggeries, trickeries, hocus-pocuses, slicknesses…
Example sentences
- trickery The ones who lack courage, exceed in trickery.
- skulduggery This kind of partisan skulduggery has no place in a government agency.
- slickness Tom underestimated the slickness and drove into the ditch.
By length
- 8 letters
- trickery3
- 9 letters
- slickness
- 11 letters
- skulduggery4
- 12 letters
- skullduggery
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (trickery3 = 3 syllables).