shenanigans

noun Informal.

1. Usually shenanigans.
   1. mischief; prankishness: Halloween shenanigans.
   2. deceit; trickery.
2. a mischievous or deceitful trick, practice, etc.

noun informal

1. (usually plural) roguishness; mischief
2. an act of treachery; deception

n.see shenanigan. n.1855, of uncertain origin. Earliest records of it are in San Francisco and Sacramento, California, U.S. Suggestions include Spanish chanada, a shortened form of charranada “trick, deceit;” or, less likely, German Schenigelei, peddler’s argot for “work, craft,” or the related German slang verb schinäglen. Another guess centers on Irish sionnach “fox.”