shindig

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I mean, that is what this shindig is all about, isn't it?

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  1. noun A festive party, often with dancing. Also called shindy.
  2. noun See shindy.

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  • Our ghosts had just held a real shindig, then disappeared. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 01 - July 1996
  • Most of the town of Blue Belle was invited to the shindig, along with twenty or thirty people from as far away as Hammond. —  Garwood, Julie - Rose 4 - One Red Rose
  • The G20 shindig is his last chance to claim a triumph, even though it will be a fudge. —  Libertarian Blog Place
  • I mean, that is what this shindig is all about, isn't it? —  Chris Floyd - Empire Burlesque
  • At the sold-out San Francisco shindig, the full array of offerings was on display, from orthodox tools embedding Allen's methodology precisely, to creative software and new ideas tied only to an underlying and seemingly universal pain: People overwhelmed with more ideas and stuff to do than time. —  xian's running monolog
 

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/ˈʃɪndɪg/
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