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hanky-panky

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hanky-panky/haŋkiˈpaŋki/

▶noun informal behaviour considered improper but not seriously so.

– origin C19: perh. an alt. of hokey-pokey.

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