The phrase "a shindig" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a lively party or celebration, often with a casual or informal tone.
Example: "We're throwing a shindig this Saturday to celebrate our anniversary, and everyone is invited!"
Alternatives: "a party" or "a gathering".
Either that or the chairs actually belonged to him and he was lending 'em to Junius for a shindig.
For instance, when stalking a celebrity at a shindig, "Do not line up with the hoi polloi.
When the now ninety-nine-year-old painter Dorothea Tanning met the choreographer George Balanchine, at a shindig for Surrealists in the forties, a collaboration was born.
LAST year's session of the annual Shangri-La Dialogue, a shindig in Singapore for Asia-Pacific defence chiefs, was better for journalists than for diplomats.
The first is NETmundial, a shindig in São Paulo on April 23rd and 24th initiated by the Brazilian government in reaction to the NSA scandal.
Half the fun of a shindig is anticipating what to wear and who might turn up, and the stealth element eliminates all that.
When he arrives at the A-list shindig by a separate route, he has another young woman clinging to him, one almost as glamorous as our heroine!
So Disney, aiming to create a group-fun vibe around "Alice in Wonderland" last spring, staged a similar shindig at a Los Angeles mall.
When "Promises, Promises" was revived by the Encores! series of concerts in 1997, its leering view of secretaries as disposable playthings seemed uncomfortably quaint, despite a flashy shindig of a production by Rob Marshall.
But pulling off a stellar shindig without a hitch isn't always so easy.
For me, it's a secular shindig and not a religious statement.
