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• n  a large and noisy party of people

• One night there was a terrific shindy; next morning the prisoners learned their captors had been hijacked by bandits.
• The Turks would treat any attacker to a first-rate shindy.
• But he had the bad luck to witness the bombing of a Black Tan lorry, and in the subsequent shindy he shot a man in self-defense.

• shindig