ruckus

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There was a huge ruckus in congress over this matter.

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the act of making a noisy disturbance

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noun

the act of making a noisy disturbance

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ruckus.

noun

the act of making a noisy disturbance

See also: commotion, din, ruction, rumpus, tumult

Example sentences

There was a huge ruckus in congress over this matter.

He tried to cause a ruckus by getting the message out there, but was shutdown.

It would be good to see the email that caused the ruckus... or did I just miss it in the post?

Let me put it this way - if a school "lost" a child, they'd be damned sure to raise a ruckus when they found out.

In this case, he sees the ruckus over Reader as a chance to get a bunch of feature requests.

My 2 little dachshunds create a nice ruckus anytime a stranger comes near the house.

" to feeling confident enough in my analysis to raise a ruckus.

How many other stories do we see here that are "I hope my blog post/Ask HN post causes enough of a ruckus that I get what I want"?

Half the comments are about his pay scale, imagine the ruckus if he had been paid in unwithdrawable bitcoins at mtgox.

We had a young'un who just graduated college who we hired and recently raised a ruckus about someone using IE8 in the field.

I was a little disappointed when they didn't include the ruckus about Zed not starting out teaching Array#each.

I was thinking of buying that book, but he sounded like a typical wackaloon to me. I mean, just from reading the first few lines of the Amazon review:> Dr. John Sarno caused quite a ruckus back in 1990 when he suggested that back pain is all in the head.

The key here is 'moral and psychological problems'.To cite just one example, there was a lot of ruckus about the 2G Scam and the Lokpal bill recently.

I get personally irritated when some group is causing traffic delays and making a ruckus where I'm trying to go about my life, but I firmly believe they have the right to do it.