shindy

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"Knock at the door, of course, and pull the bell, and dance a break-down on the steps, and make a shindy generally, so as to let 'em know we've come."

From A Hero of Romance by Marsh, Richard

It is the granddaughter's birthday, and there was a regular shindy about who was going to be asked.

From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

A scout has just come in and tells us the enemy are intrenched about 4 miles off, so that we shall have to-day a shindy of some kind.

From Notes of a Son and Brother by James, Henry