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

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

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)

If he comes when the Wakes are on there will be a shindy!...

From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver