Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A disturbance; a commotion.
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- noun A
noisy disturbance and/orcommotion . - noun A
row ,fight .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of making a noisy disturbance
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Her supervisor appears and wonders what the ruckus is about.
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Nagi then appears asking what the ruckus is about.
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Once the holiday ruckus is finished, it's time to ease back into real life again, you know, January.
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Evidently, Ford had the good sense to tell Sean Hannity today that he didn't think the RNC ad raising a ruckus is racist, just silly.
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PreserveLA intimates a ruckus is brewing, perhaps on the scale as Washington Square Park and Stonehenge, but for obvious reasons, I have no way of gauging its intensity from this end of the world.
On Griffith Park 2005
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PreserveLA intimates a ruckus is brewing, perhaps on the scale as Washington Square Park and Stonehenge, but for obvious reasons, I have no way of gauging its intensity from this end of the world.
Archive 2005-08-01 2005
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ShelbyC: I’m not sure what the big ruckus is about anyway.
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The latest of these flicks to cause a ruckus is BAD BOY BUBBY, a black comedy about a 35-year-old man that has spent his entire life inside his mother’s two-room slum.
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In the middle of the ruckus was a red-faced Ri Tcheul, the North Korean ambassador to the United Nations.
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In the middle of the ruckus was a red-faced Ri Tcheul, the North Korean ambassador to the United Nations.
Kay Seok: Why We Need to Keep the Spotlight on North Korea 2010
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