Definition of "shinny"

shinny¹

/ˈʃɪni/

verb
third-person singular simple present shinnies, present participle shinnying, simple past and past participle shinnied
1. To climb in an awkward manner.

shinny²

/ˈʃɪni/

noun
uncountable
1. (Canada) An informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or ball.
  Quotations
  In shinny, everyone wins. Though rules are scaled back, the game is not loosened beyond all form, and the driving competitive element remains.
  2010, Jason Blake, Canadian Hockey Literature: A Thematic Study, University of Toronto Press, (cloth-bound), (paperback), chapter two: “The Hockey Dream: Hockey as Escape, Freedom, Utopia”, page 63
  Hockey fiction shows that the focus on ludus in organized hockey threatens to strangle the primal play spirit, which is why shinny is more easily romanticized than versions of the game that seem to require fighting, that motivate parents to violence, and, at the highest level, give rise to lockouts and strikes. In shinny the playful core of hockey is retained, while the overly confining rules and restrictions are discarded.
  2010, ibidem, page 70
2. (Canada) Street hockey.
3. (Canada, informal) Hockey.
4. (US, anthropology) A hockey-like game played by American Indians.

shinny³

/ˈʃɪni/

noun
uncountable
1. Moonshine (illegal alcohol)
  Quotations
  Miss Maudie Atkinson baked a Lane cake so loaded with shinny it made me tight;....
  1960 July 11, Harper Lee, chapter 13, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company
  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 July 11, Harper Lee, chapter 13, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company