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Mixup vs Fracas - What's the difference?

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Mixup is a synonym of fracas.


As nouns the difference between mixup and fracas

is that mixup is a case of confusion while fracas is failure.

mixup

English

Alternative forms

* mix-up

Noun

(en noun)
  • A case of confusion.
  • 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