Shinny
WordNet
noun
(1) 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
verb
(2) Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
WiktionaryText
Noun
or shinny hockey
- An informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or ball.
- Street hockey.
- Hockey.
Noun
- Moonshine (illegal alcohol)
- 1960, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, chapter 13,
- Miss Maudie Atkinson baked a Lane cake so loaded with shinny it made me tight;....
- Ibid.,
- He sent them packing next day armed with their charts and five quarts of shinny in their saddlebags—two apiece and one for the Governor.
- 1960, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, chapter 13,