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

If I'm spotted there can only be a shindy.

From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

"This 'ere's my shindy, Long," he answered doggedly.

From Hoof and Claw by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

Down by the square one day I saw an old boy in white ducks and a sun helmet having a shindy with the sentry at the barracks.

From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)