Word of the Week: fracas

Usage

Most of my living for the past few years had come from serving as a special consultant to SI, but after a fracas last spring involving a dark wizard fighting a gang war for control of Chicago’s drug trade, work with SI had slowly tapered off—and with it, my income.

Fool Moon
(The Dresden Files)
​Jim Butcher

“Why are you taking those people?” Henry heard Keiko ask softly amid the fracas.

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
​Jamie Ford