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

"My word, though, won't there be a shindy?" said Frederick, laughing.

From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie

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

"Why are you kicking up the shindy of such a deuce's own hullabaloo?"

From A Bayard From Bengal Being some account of the Magnificent and Spanking Career of Chunder Bindabun Bhosh,... by Jabberjee, Hurry Bungsho