Definition of "jink" []

• To make a quick, evasive turn: "He jinked every five seconds, and now brought his tank left again” ( Tom Clancy). (verb-intransitive)
• To cause (a vehicle or an aircraft, for example) to make a quick, evasive turn. (verb-transitive)
• A quick, evasive turn. (noun)
• Rambunctious play; frolic. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Delap has picked up a booking for a foul in the build-up.80 mins Excellent challenge from Shawcross inside the box, as Aston Villa break rapidly from a Stoke corner –Delfouneso feeding Albrighton down by the corner of the six-yard area and the latter looking to jink his way past the defender but finding the ball pinched off his toes as he skips down towards the goalline."
• "McGeady was again at the heart of the move, his jink and shot forcing the goalkeeper Sergei Pareiko to parry."
• "At this point, the reader/listener is able to escape into the wonderful world of imagination and follow Jack and his sister, Marie on their "think-a-ma-jink" adventures."