A noisy, disorderly fight or quarrel between multiple people, often in a public place.
From French 'fracas', derived from Italian 'fracasso' (broken pieces, noise), from the verb 'fracassare' (to break). First used in English in the 17th century.
The word literally comes from the sound and fury of breaking things during a fight—'fracasso' in Italian is the very onomatopoeia of destruction, making the word itself sound like what it describes.
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