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shindig
noun
a party US, 1871
A rural term that moved to the city; it gained wide usage as a result of the musical television programme Shindig which aired on ABC from September 1964 until January 1966.- Man, what a shindig that was. Give me a barrelhouse joint on the South Side any day[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 136, 1946
- At such a rowdy shindig[.] — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 102, 1956
- Well, sir, that was quite a little shindig yesterday, wasn’t it? — Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, p. 220, 1957
- At one of those shindigs, he presented Governor Ruby Laffoon of Kentucky to me. — Helen Giblo, Footlights, Fistfights and Femmes, p. 229, 1957
- As you see, I am off to a shindig. Late already. So if you don’t mind, I’ll buzz. — John Burke and Stuart Douglass, The Boys, p. 58, 1962
- It was an ADMIT TWO in Spanish to some shindig up in the quarter. — Mickey Spillane, Me, Hood!, p. 48, 1963
- He preached about how much it meant to him for Carol to be his date at a birthday shindig in his honor at a Southside cabaret. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Mama Black Widow, p. 174, 1969
- I want us both to catch a really big shindig. — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971
- “I heard that Gypsy Rose Lee’s holding a shindig tonight.” — Georgia Sothern, My Life in Burlesque, p. 178, 1972
- “I don’t actually like these shindigs”–his hand casually moving from coat pocket to coat pocket in the pile on the bed. — Ed Sanders, Tales of Beatnik Glory, p. 73, 1975
- At least one and perhaps several of the celebrants had made use of Elvira’s ladies and the rooms upstairs, the extra service fees being charged to the individual partakers and not to the general cost of the shindig[.] — Robert Campbell, Boneyards, p. 181, 1992
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