Definition of "shinny" []

• Ice, street, or field hockey played informally with a ball, can, or similar object. (noun)
• The stick used when playing this game. (noun)
• To climb by shinning. (verb-intransitive)

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• "Love the chrysanthas in bud…looks like some kind of shinny metal…just wild."
• "I suppose what I call "shinny" was really La Crosse."
• "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."