fracas

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The appointed time for the fracas was getting closer and buffs were beginning to stream into town to bask in the atmosphere of threatened death.

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

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  • Every now and then a couple of them would try to get a rise out of her by playacting they were headed for a fracas, but I soon learned to spot our amateur thespians early on and would politely suggest they take their food and their foolishness outside. —  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, February 2005
  • She armed herself for the fracas which always ensued when you disagreed with Lucy Ellen. —  The Key - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 08
  • Morgan pressed her face into his chest and plunged through the fracas, his grace serving them well. —  A WHISPER OF ROSES - TERESA MEDEIROS
  • D'Orr grabbed his gun Long Tom started to join the fracas--and halted. —  101 - The Green Eagle
  • A man who came up to Father Coughlin wanted to know what the new chaplain was going to do to put the "fracas," as he called it, aside. —  CNS latest top stories
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. French, from Italian fracasso, from fracassare, to make an uproar.

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  1. F.(=Spanish Fracaso = Pg. Italian fracaso,), an uproar, crash, from fracasser = Spanish fracassar, = Portuguese fracassar, from Italian Fracasare, break in pieces, destroy, from fra, within, amidst, in, upon (prob. shortened from Latin infra, within), + cassare, from Latin quassare, shatter, break, intensive of quatere, shake: see cash, cass, and quash.
 

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