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Large lively party
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shindig
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" Shindig " is the fourth episode of the science fiction television series Firefly created by Joss Whedon . Inara attends a formal society dance, only to find Malcolm there as well, attempting to set up a smuggling job. Mal comes to blows with Inara's conceited ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"dance, party, lively gathering," 1871, probably from shindy "a spree, merrymaking" (1821), also "a game like hockey;" perhaps from shinty , name of a Scottish game akin to hockey (1771), earlier shinny (see shinny (n.)).
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n. a large and noisy party of people [syn: shindy ]
Usage examples of shindig.
I wondered how Christian knew about the psychic shindig, then figured he must have had an ear to the paranormal grapevine.
And then, because you gotta have entertainment at these shindigs, you know what she suggested--?
We may be in high school, but until everyone is wasted these shindigs are as boy-girl segregated as a kindergarten birthday party.
She had a fleet-incurred preference for strong coffee, and the last had been served at that pathetic Thanksgiving shindig — and spilled when the tremor had shaken the urns from their stands.