shindy

Example Sentences

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The Turks would treat any attacker to a first-rate shindy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bennett in-laws and ex-s turned up at Manhattan's glittery El Morocco, opened the nightclub shindy season.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then he struck at him, and there was a shindy.

From A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)

Why, man, we had the most infernal shindy yesterday ever kicked up between two full-blown lunatics.

From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram

I recollect another shindy I had when attending the traps.

From The Young Dragoon Every Day Life of a Soldier by Drayson, A.W.