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

"Knock at the door, of course, and pull the bell, and dance a break-down on the steps, and make a shindy generally, so as to let 'em know we've come."

From A Hero of Romance by Marsh, Richard

Oh! yes; there’s been a devil of a shindy.

From The Stronger Influence by Young, F.E. Mills

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