Crossword clues for fracas
fracas
- French mediator's argy-bargy
- Row of motorists following as escorts
- Brawl sees American in American gorge retreating
- Barney initially astonished to be constricted by revolting boa?
- Big to-do
- Noisy fight
- Big brawl
- Bench-clearing brawl
- Disorderly disturbance
- Noisy altercation
- Noisy skirmish
- Noisy fight [1930]
- Disorderly scrap
- A scarf (anag)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fracas \Fra"cas\ (fr[=a]"kas; F. fr[.a]`k[aum]"; 277), n. [F., crash, din, tumult, It. fracasso, fr. fracassare to break in pieces, perh. fr. fra within, among (L. infra) + cassare to annul, cashier. Cf. Cashier, v. t.] An uproar; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1727, from French fracas "crash, sudden noise; tumult, bustle, fuss" (15c.), from Italian fracasso "uproar, crash," back-formation from fracassare "to smash, crash, break in pieces," from fra-, a shortening of Latin infra "below" (see infra-) + Italian cassare "to break," from Latin quassare "to shake" (see quash).
Wiktionary
n. A noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap.
WordNet
n. noisy quarrel [syn: affray, altercation]
Wikipedia
Fracas may refer to:
- Fracas! Improv Festival, an improvisational theater festival held at the University of Southern California
- Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action Systems
- Fracas (video game), a 1980 Apple II video game by Stuart Smith
Usage examples of "fracas".
Her interest was caught by two women who were confronting each other over the attentions of a gentleman who stood watching their fracas, his eyes gleaming through the black slits of his mask.
This fracas began when Lena mentioned the extremely highbrow and expensive beautification and body-reducing establishment which Pat conducted on Park Avenue.
Tout a coup un fracas de verrerie lui fit brusquement tourner la tete pour voir qui venait de renverser cette verrerie, et il apercut au milieu de la chambre, se tenant sur la pointe des pieds sans oser avancer ou reculer, son ancien professeur Crozat.
Drustan launched into a diatribe with a burr so thick she could scarcely understand a word he was saying, and Drustan of the trews began yelling back, and then Silvan poked his nose out of the castle to observe the fracas.
If you were diplomatique, you would come here in a coach, and drive about this court with a great fracas, cracking the whip and blowing the horn and frightening the sparrows for two daysl You cannot be diplomatiquel But still the matter is important!
He had not yet recovered from his surprise that despite the fracas at the landing, Temple was letting the women stay.
It was extraordinary, I thought, that no one at all had heard the fracas and come running.
Fearing that the coal heavers might start some kind of fracas he went to the window.
She was saved from replying to this unanswerable question by a slight fracas between the dogs.
Other passengers near the fracas studiously read their papers or looked out of the windows.
Instead, he confessed that he had met some of his old mates, and then he told her about the fracas on the train.
It was equally true that any comer to the Pinchgut had a good chance of being knocked on the head for his purse, or fractured in a fracas, or merely poisoned by bad whiskey.
Gave, grossi par la premiere fonte des neiges, rouler entre ses rives verdoyantes ses eaux froides qui fumaient par places sous les rayons obliques du soleil levant et pour ecouter leur fracas torrentueux.
Kurtz, ombudsman apologist for liberal media bias, ran a full expose in the Washington Post on the Bush cousin fracas.
From this, it 7 8 Robert Asprin is easy to see that attendin' these borin' but nec-essary plannin' sessions is not only an honor, itgreatly improves one's chances of bein' alive at theend of the fracas.