shindy

[shin-dee] / ˈʃɪn di /

NOUN

disturbance or party

Synonyms

STRONG

bash carousal commotion dance disturbance fancy fracas frolic merrymaking party revel riot row shindig spree uproar

Antonyms

STRONG

calm peace quiet tranquility

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)

For my part I don’t believe there’ll be a shindy at all.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram

“Did you get hit in that shindy just now?”

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram