shinny

Noun

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

Verb

Verb Forms: shinnied, shinnying, shinnies

• To climb using hands and legs alternately, gripping tightly.
• climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
• To climb in an awkward manner.

Examples

• He had to shinny up the rulebook to confirm that obscure play was legal.

Synonyms

clamber, scramble, shin, shinney, skin, sputter, struggle, shimmy