[lit-ideas] Jink & Juke

In a news piece this morning there was a reference to McCain's tendency to
behave politically the way he behaved as a pilot -- often "jink & juke"ing.
Unfamiliar with the phrase, I did some searches -- the clearest I could find
was this:


<<According to the fighter pilots, the airlifters had to fly as low and as
fast as possible, constantly jink and juke, always fly curvilinear paths
rather than linear ones, and spread way out so that individual aircraft in
an ostensible formation could not even see one another.>>

Okay -- I get a general sense of the meaning and understand the
extrapolation to political maneuvering, but it isn't precise enough.  There
are a number of people on this list who likely can offer a better
explanation -- what exactly is a "jink" and a "juke"?  What do those words
even mean?  Anyone have a notion of the origin of the phrase?

Julie Krueger

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