Crossword clues for shindy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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
n. 1 A shindig. 2 (context slang English) An uproar or disturbance; a spree; a row; a riot. 3 hockey; shinney 4 (context US dialect dated English) A fancy or liking.
WordNet
n. a large and noisy party of people [syn: shindig]
Wikipedia
Michael Schindler (born 7 September 1988), better known by his stage name Shindy, is a German rapper. Shindy is currently signed to record label ersguterjunge.
Usage examples of "shindy".
D'yu mean to sett there where y'are now, coddlin your supernumerary leg, wi'that bizar tongue in yur tolkshap, and your hindies and shindies, like a muck in a market, Sorley boy, repeating yurself, and tell me that?
All rampsmen were thugs at heart, and that was precisely what a cracksman like Pierce wanted for a buck cabby, a man holding the reins to the cab, ready to make the getaway--- or ready for a bit of a shindy, if it came to that.
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.