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

Anderson is going to raise the old flag on Sumter, and of course there will be a great shindy here—I only wish you were with us to join in it.

From Notes of a Son and Brother by James, Henry

Most up to the boss in a shindy, now, wasn’t she?

From In Wild Rose Time by Douglas, Amanda M.

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