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

“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

Anderson is going to raise the old flag on Sumter, and of course there will be a great shindy here—I only wish you were with us to join in it.

From Notes of a Son and Brother by James, Henry

People I’ve talked with here say it was a dandy shindy while it lasted.

From The Ranchman by Seltzer, Charles Alden