Windies

/ (ˈwɪndɪz) /

pl n informal

the Windies the international cricket team of the West Indies

Word Origin for Windies

from the abbreviation W. Indies

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Examples from the Web for windies

It's the windies I'm anxious about, for they're ower big to fill up.
Huntingtower|John Buchan
He likit fresh air outside fine but never kept his windies open much unless the weather was vera propitious.
Simon|J. Storer Clouston
There's Tresham's house new painted, bedad, an' them flowers in the windies!
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. II, No. X., March 1851|Various
It'll give me a power of enjoyment seein' me chimneys go up in front of their windies.
The Skin Game (Fourth Series Plays)|John Galsworthy

Come on then, sledge in the doors an' windies, an' if we lave a single inch of the villains together, may we be hanged like dogs!
The Tithe-Proctor|William Carleton