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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A noisy, disorderly fight or quarrel; a brawl. See Synonyms at brawl.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A disorderly noise or uproar; a brawl or noisy quarrel; a disturbance.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. An uproar; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. noisy quarrel

Etymologies

  1. From French fracas, from Italian fracasso, from fracassare, from Latin infra- + Italian cassare, from Latin quassare. (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from Italian fracasso, from fracassare, to make an uproar. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • Noelle Knight "I was a mess: tired, conflicted, and agitated by a the fracas with the biker and Debbie's vandalism." -Club Dead, by Charlaine Harris Feb 5, 2011

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‘fracas’ has been looked up 6012 times, loved by 5 people, added to 78 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 11.