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shindy

(n): a large and noisy party of people
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about 1 month ago yarb said:

"Don't I always say that to be good, a whale-steak must be tough? There are those sharks now over the side, don't you see they prefer it tough and rare? What a shindy they are kicking up!"

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 64

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