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shindig

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
13
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈʃɪn.dɪɡ/

Definition of shindig

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A noisy party or festivities.
    “They'd get up a regular shindig, if it wasn't for making too much noise.”
    “"That's a darn shame. Well–I suppose you're waiting for somebody to take you out to some big shindig, Sir Gerald." "Shindig? Oh. Shindig. No, to tell you the truth, I was wondering what the deuce I could do this evening[…]"”
    “There was bound to be a New Year's shindig going on in his apartment down on Las Palmas.”
    “Which suggests that the man in the middle of what will be the planet’s splashiest shindig this weekend far prefers the stillness and privacy he finds about 1,500 miles away from London, on unpaved roads and rugged woods near the Carpathian Mountains.”
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noun

  1. A noisy party or festivities.
    “They'd get up a regular shindig, if it wasn't for making too much noise.”
    “"That's a darn shame. Well–I suppose you're waiting for somebody to take you out to some big shindig, Sir Gerald." "Shindig? Oh. Shindig. No, to tell you the truth, I was wondering what the deuce I could do this evening[…]"”
    “There was bound to be a New Year's shindig going on in his apartment down on Las Palmas.”
    “Which suggests that the man in the middle of what will be the planet’s splashiest shindig this weekend far prefers the stillness and privacy he finds about 1,500 miles away from London, on unpaved roads and rugged woods near the Carpathian Mountains.”
  2. A noisy argument.

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Etymology

Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of shindy, or from Scottish Gaelic sìnteag (“jump, leap”).

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