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shindies
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shindies
Shindy \Shin"dy\, n.; pl. Shindies. [Etymol. uncertain; cf. Shinney, Shinty.]
An uproar or disturbance; a spree; a row; a riot. [Slang]
--Thackeray.Hockey; shinney.
--Bartlett.A fancy or liking. [Local, U. S.]
--Bartlett.
Wiktionary
shindies
n. (plural of shindy English)
Usage examples of "shindies".
The forest echoed with the clatter of shindies and the shriek of blowhards.
This last affair, however, made me seriously uneasy, because if his exquisite sensibilities were to go the length of involving him in pot-house shindies, he would lose his name of an inoffensive, if aggravating, fool, and acquire that of a common loafer.