Definition of shindig
shindig 
noun
- a party.
Citation from "The New Guy", Warehouse 13 (TV), Season 3 Episode 1 (2011) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: a party, event, gathering, meeting.
Last edited on Oct 14 2011. Submitted by Sybil from Wahpeton, ND, USA on Sep 09 2005.
origin
- American version of "shindy", which the Oxford English Dictionary attests from 1821.
Last edited on Aug 21 2012. Submitted by Anonymous on Aug 03 2012.
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| Definitions include: a break in the workday when employees gather to ingest drugs. | |
| Definitions include: a grand party. | |
| Definitions include: to hook up. | |
| Definitions include: to have sex with. | |
| Definitions include: a last-minute or previously unplanned request to meet up with someone with the intention of having sex (i.e. getting booty.) | |
| Definitions include: used to express displeasure, disagreement, disappointment, or disgust. | |
| Definitions include: a gathering with many more males than females. | |
| Definitions include: a big party. | |
| Definitions include: a wild party. | |
| Definitions include: a party. | |
| Definitions include: to smoke marijuana. | |
| Definitions include: press conference. | |
| Definitions include: "anything but clothes party". | |
| Definitions include: a period of time during which one engages sexually with another person. | |
| Definitions include: to recline, as in a reclining chair. | |
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| Definitions include: in the United States, usually any ethnicity other than white American. | |
| Definitions include: Highly upset over a situation. | |
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| Definitions include: feces | |
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| Definitions include: bisexual. | |
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| Definitions include: chubby. |
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