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

Only a Petrel, I, But when my form you spy,— Look out for shindy.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 12th 1893 by Various

Well, the morning after you went there was a rare shindy, as you may imagine, when they found your manger empty.

From Swift and Sure by Strang, Herbert

I was home an’ abed afore ye kem in, an’ ye was full of the shindy at Mis’ MacBride’s.

From In Wild Rose Time by Douglas, Amanda M.