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

I recollect another shindy I had when attending the traps.

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

It's claws are showing, and they may want clipping, And shindy in the streets is just a pest; But Law, though lately once or twice found tripping, Won't interfere with the calm Civic nest.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, Nov. 11, 1887 by Various

“To oblige me by not mentioning this little shindy to any one—will you?”

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram