Noun: hanky-panky
- Dishonest and underhand behaviour
"The auditors uncovered financial hanky-panky in the company's accounts";
- trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, jiggery-pokery [informal], skulduggery, skullduggery, sculduggery [rare]
- Illicit sexual intercourse
"There were rumours of hanky-panky between the coworkers"
Type of: carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, copulation, deceit, deception, intercourse, misrepresentation, relation, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation
Encyclopedia: Hanky-panky