Shindig

Definitions

1. A noisy party or festivities.
2. A noisy argument.

Equivalents

Examples

“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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