Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A disturbance; a commotion: "Little was heard by us in the upper regions of the considerable ruckus (and surely the heartbreak) being endured some floors below” ( Brendan Gill).
Wiktionary
- n. A noisy disturbance and/or commotion.
- n. A row, fight.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of making a noisy disturbance
Etymologies
- Recorded since 1890; probably a blend of ruction 'disturbance' and rumpus 'disturbance, fracas' (itself of unknown origin) (Wiktionary)
- Perhaps blend of ruction and rumpus. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Her supervisor appears and wonders what the ruckus is about.”
“Nagi then appears asking what the ruckus is about.”
“Evidently, Ford had the good sense to tell Sean Hannity today that he didn't think the RNC ad raising a ruckus is racist, just silly.”
“Once the holiday ruckus is finished, it's time to ease back into real life again, you know, January.”
“PreserveLA intimates a ruckus is brewing, perhaps on the scale as Washington Square Park and Stonehenge, but for obvious reasons, I have no way of gauging its intensity from this end of the world.”
“The latest of these flicks to cause a ruckus is BAD BOY BUBBY, a black comedy about a 35-year-old man that has spent his entire life inside his mother’s two-room slum.”
“ShelbyC: I’m not sure what the big ruckus is about anyway.”
“In the middle of the ruckus was a red-faced Ri Tcheul, the North Korean ambassador to the United Nations.”
The Huffington Post: Why We Need to Keep the Spotlight on North Korea
“Part of the reason this church in Indiana caused a ruckus was the question of federally funding for their programs.”
Paul Raushenbush: Charity with a Catch: No Religion, No Food
“KURTZ: Clarence Page, when the White House is complaining about media coverage of health care almost every day, and Obama keeps say TV loves a ruckus, which is true, but that's not a good sign, is it?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ruckus’.
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fight
words for fighting
( open list, randomness )bout, fight, match, smackdown, blue, stoush, battle, clash, fuss, fray, ruckus, tussle and 115 more...
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Them's fightin' words
brannigan, fisticuffs, donnybrook, lambaste, fracas, fray, imbroglio, melee, squabble, quarrel, skirmish, stramash and 28 more...
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prometheous's list
these words just tickle me for whatever reason
orange, tempestuous, meander, giggle, promulgate, moreover, gesticulate, huzzah, spontaneity, surreptitious, superfluous, plebeian and 1 more...
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D_Verbatim
sporadic, peculiar, treacherous, niche, ambiance, ruckus, notion, voyeurism, exclusion, proselytize, opaque, perverse and 13 more...
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TEN DOLLAR WORDS
brouhaha, foofaraw, ruckus, slumgullion, snollygoster, slangwhanger, slugabed, hodgepodge, rapscallion, muckamuck, hornswoggle, sockdolager and 5 more...
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z. aural ophelemity
words that sound so good, it's almost dirty
voluptuous, sensuous, voracious, ransom, sinister, notorious, wretched, insurrection, limbic, inverness, luscious, torrid and 3 more...
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Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV
Words from the songs of Frank Black, a.k.a. Black Francis
zugzwang, valhalla, montalvo, ishist, tritons, mosh, siam, llano del rio, protohuman, tumbleweeds, ludwigshafen, ballyhoos and 349 more...
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Verecund, flivver, etc
Just some words I happen to enjoy. Some thread-worn, some not.
yegg, yob, verecund, amatory, fermata, threepenny, gruntled, flivver, gamboge, decolletage, ordure, nudnik and 173 more...
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wunderkammer's Words
smarmy, bubkes, elucidate, togs, aeolian, carp, kibosh, bosky, ramshackle, mange, harpy, effervesce and 163 more...
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dyy's Words
ambivalence, irony, double-edged sword, paradox, struggle, plunge, buoy, pigeon-hole, ultimately, status quo, fuel, undermine and 230 more...
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mango22's Words
avalanche, apple, arrividerci, awry, adamant, asunder, barter, beloved, calm, cataclysmic, catastrophe, coat and 143 more...
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Dain's Words
rabble, terminus, archaic, atavism, demiurge, waylay, syzygy, jocoserious, quark, entropy, cinnabar, shamble and 912 more...
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amy's GRE 2012
gimmicks, kowtow, unpretentious, skeptical, cynical, somber, prevaricate, equivocate, requisite, embellish, impregnable, procrastinate and 307 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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Wrapped up in books
I'm reading books. And there are words and phrases I come upon for the first time, or that are used with usages that are new to me.
So, this is just a plain list of those words. Don't expect ...hobble, mackerel, crone, cavort, hoyden, rheumy, scatter, hiss, recoil, trundle, shatter, flaxen and 200 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for ruckus.

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