Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A festive party, often with dancing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ball or dance; especially, a dance attended with a shindy or much uproar and rowdyism.
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- noun Noisy
party or festivities.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a large and noisy party of people
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It’s true that my ego isn’t complaining, but these naysayers may be interested to know that the real reason I decided to throw this shindig is actually the gifts I’ll be receiving from the 33 other heads of government attending the meeting.
Global Voices in English » Americas: 5th Summit Reactions 2009
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As long as these stupidass repugs obstruct President Obama appointments these committees are as useless as a teabaggin shindig.
Think Progress » Senate rejects Gregg’s ill-conceived plan to create a deficit commission. 2010
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Party of the night - It has to be the SNP's knees up which could only be described as a shindig from what I saw of it on TV.
A little death for Labour, 'le petite morte' for SNP Jeff 2007
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The shindig, which is now one of Canada's largest music festivals, goes down July 6 to 18 at Ottawa's Lebreton Flats.
CHARTattack:News Feed Kate Harper 2010
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The shindig, which is now one of Canada's largest music festivals, goes down July 6 to 18 at Ottawa's Lebreton Flats.
CHARTattack:News Feed Kate Harper 2010
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Sponsored by our own Chow Bella blog, the shindig is a live "Battle of the Dishes" event featuring some of the Valley's best chefs to determine the top caramel maker in town.
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The shindig was the week's 1st event celebrating a fashion blogger.
Twanna A. Hines @ FUNKYBROWNCHICK.com | sex. dating. relationships. 2008
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A zombie walk/date with Brad, Jared, and Carson/and a "shindig" to head to later.
tencentlove Diary Entry tencentlove 2005
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In a few minutes, I’m going to wander over to Ellen’s place for her annual cookie-decorating shindig, which is guaranteed to be both tasty and cool.
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It’s going to be quite a shindig, that is if we don’t all kill each other before it rolls around, Dorie especially.
Some Assembly Required Lynn Kiele Bonasia 2008
ateolf commented on the word shindig
see also shindog...
February 18, 2009