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

And so Tay Pay transgressed the bounds of taste, And led to shameful shindy.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 5th 1893 by Various

The saloons drove literally a roaring trade, for the shindy that went on in them as the night wore on, and their habitués waxed livelier, was something indescribable.

From Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West by Mitford, Bertram

This shindy must be stopped, or 'twill, I fear, Demoralise the pack!

From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, December 10, 1887 by Various