fracasnoun [ S ]
uk/ˈfræk.ɑː/us/ˈfreɪ.kəs/a noisy argument or fight:
He was injured in a Saturday-night fracas outside a disco.
The prime minister has joined the fracas over the proposed changes.
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Fighting
- a fight to the finish idiom
- action stations
- bloodless
- bloodletting
- brawl
- counterinsurgency
- disturbance
- dust-up
- engagement
- fighting
- fistfight
- fisticuffs
- fray
- he who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day idiom
- hotspot
- last
- mano a mano
- pick
- shoot
- slug
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