The word 'fracas' is correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used to describe a noisy and disorderly fight or argument. Example: The bar erupted into a fracas when two drunk patrons got into a heated dispute over who would pay for their drinks. The other customers quickly dispersed as the bouncers rushed in to break up the fracas.
In the end it wasn't Jeremy Clarkson's racist, homophobic or sexist comments, but a "fracas" with a colleague that became the final straw for the BBC, long urged to punish its highest-paid star.
The police also released a detailed report about the fracas, which occurred at a party at the house of Korey Klingenmeyer, on 6 September.
Peter Wertheim, the executive director of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, who has been active in a broadly-based community campaign against the RDA changes, said on Friday that he saw no connection between Brandis's statement this week on east Jerusalem and the discrimination fracas.
Seven police officers were injured in the fracas.
The day's surreal highlight was an act by an acrobatics troupe, which did flik flaks down the red carpet towards the VIPs, causing a momentary fracas among the president's security detail.
Related: Jeremy Clarkson will face no further action, say police The star received widespread public support – including from his friend David Cameron – in the aftermath of the fracas, and 1 million people signed a petition calling for the BBC to reinstate him.
The two replacements had, in Clarkson-speak, a bit of a "fracas" just outside the Falcons' 22. Richards claimed his Italian international had been punched by the Canadian and that the dismissal was an "absolute disgrace".
To recap on the story so far: the Knowles sisters and Jay Z rode an elevator at the Standard Hotel in New York last Monday, following a Met Ball after party, and during the short ride were involved in what can only be described by the tabloid term, fracas.
Top Gear is a show that I love, I genuinely watch it and I always have done Kim Shillinglaw Kim Shillinglaw confirmed that material from the final three episodes of the last series of the motoring show, shelved after he was suspended following a "fracas" with a producer, would be broadcast, including appearances by Clarkson.
A tight-lipped corporation said on Tuesday it had suspended the controversial Top Gear presenter pending an investigation into his "fracas with a BBC producer" and, for the first time, it pulled the show from its schedule for the next two Sundays.
The Mirror reported the "fracas" was over a lack of catering, with the paper quoting a source as saying: "They came to the end of filming after a long day and Jeremy discovered that no food had been laid on".
