Fracks vs Fracas – What’s the difference?

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Fracks vs Fracas - What's the difference?
As nouns the difference between fracks and fracas is that fracks is while fracas is failure.

fracks

English

Verb

(head)

  • (frack)


    • frack

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)
    * (l)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) hydrofracking.

    Verb

  • (oil industry) To employ hydraulic fracturing (fracking )

    • Etymology 2

    Original and alternate spelling for (etyl) . See frak.

    Verb

  • (euphemistic) fuck.

    • References

    * Wikipedia frack.
    * Battlestarwiki frack

    fracas

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)

  • A noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap.
  • * 1989 , , Faber 1999, paperback edition, p. 16,
    • And I recall also some years ago, Mr Rayne, who travelled to America as valet to Sir Reginals Mauvis, remarking that a taxi driver in New York regularly addressed his fare in a manner which if repeated in London would end in some sort of fracas , if not in the fellow being frogmarched to the nearest police station.
  • * 1964 , , Vintage Books 2002, paperback edition, p. 37,
    • The Oregon-Northern California region had lost much of its population during the fracas of 1980; it had been heavily hit by Red Chinese guided missiles, and of course the clouds of fallout had blanketed it in the subsequent decade.

    Synonyms

    * brouhaha
    * kerfuffle
    * melee

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