shindig

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for October 29, 2026 is: shindig • \SHIN-dig\ • noun Shindig is an informal word for a big party. // Our friends are in town this weekend, so we’re hosting a shindig at our place on Saturday night. See the entry > Examples: “It’s the night before Halloween, and a couple of hundred young people dressed up as witches or Labubu toys are dancing at a warehouse-style bar beside a subway station in Brooklyn. But this is no ordinary Halloween shindig .” — Michael Koziol, The Age (Melbourne, Australia), 3 Nov. 2025 Did you know? At a glance, shindig appears to combine

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