shindy

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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

It is the granddaughter's birthday, and there was a regular shindy about who was going to be asked.

From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

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

"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