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Shinny

//ˈʃɪni// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or ball. Canada, uncountable

    "In shinny, everyone wins. Though rules are scaled back, the game is not loosened beyond all form, and the driving competitive element remains."

  2. 2
    Moonshine. (illegal alcohol) uncountable

    "Miss Maudie Atkinson baked a Lane cake so loaded with shinny it made me tight;...."

  3. 3
    a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck wordnet
  4. 4
    Street hockey. Canada, uncountable
  5. 5
    Hockey. Canada, informal, uncountable
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  1. 6
    A hockey-like game played by American Indians. US, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To climb in an awkward manner. intransitive
  2. 2
    climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From shin (noun) + -y.

Etymology 2

Variation of shinty.

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