shinny

IPA: ʃˈɪni

(Canada) An informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or ball.
(Canada) Street hockey.
(Canada, informal) Hockey.
(US, anthropology) A hockey-like game played by American Indians.
Moonshine (illegal alcohol)

Examples of "shinny" in Sentences

He started skating and playing shinny at age four.
I personally would prefer the shinny copper color.
I suppose what I call "shinny" was really La Crosse.
Also, shinny can also mean moonshine illegal alcohol .
He'll let you play 'shinny' in the halls if you want to.
Brother officers still speak with awe of his skill at Shinny.
Morenz learned his hockey by playing shinny on the Thames River.
Libby Anne, limping painfully, put her "shinny" stick into Bud's hand.
The 1850s medal pictured was presented to a shinny tournament champion.
Love the chrysanthas in bud…looks like some kind of shinny metal…just wild.
Shinny also shinney is an informal type of hockey played on ice or the street.
Shinny was not just a part of Navajo culture it was part of many Indian stories.
This Canadian expression has also been used to describe the players on the losing side of a game of shinny.
"Huh! Father Tom says it's nothing but old-fashioned 'shinny' with a fancy name tacked onto it," declared Bobby Hargrew.
In the feminine game of ball, which is something like "shinny," the ball is driven with curved sticks between two goals.
Out on the well-tramped school-yard the boys and girls were playing "shinny," which is an old and honourable game, father or uncle of hockey.
This was similar to the boys 'game of "shinny," or, as it is now more elegantly known, "polo," and the bat used was bent at the end, just as now.