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fracas
/ˈfɹeɪkəs/
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What does fracas mean?
noun
- A noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈfɹeɪkəs/
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It would be precisely in front of the good public-house that our painful personal fracas would occur.
"Too late for the fracas," remarked Hilton, glancing at these last Foxhounds.
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“Do you find,” I asked, “any mention of a certain fracas?”
From the right came the noise of a terrific fracas.
I had secured a wonderful eland and a very fine impalla, and we had had a gorgeous close-quarters fight with a cheetah.* Now C. had gone out, a three weeks' journey, carrying to medical attendance a porter injured in the cheetah fracas.