ruction

Noun

1. A noisy quarrel or fight.
   • If you do want to go home, here’s your whip. Don’t fall off. Say to her you wanted it, or there might be ructions. - 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XII [Uniform ed., p. 131]
   • She could see there were going to be ructions. Sure enough there'd be a scene between them, when Sebastian found what Tilly had been up to. - 1947, Christopher Sheridan, Bread and circuses, page 52:
   • Although she acknowledged that the development of an opera house had caused considerable ructions in Australia, she nevertheless implied that its construction was a sort of coming-of-age for the rough antipodeans -...