donnybrook - DON-nee-BROOK - fight, altercation, heated argument, uproar

Example: "Meteorologist Jeff Masters, in a donnybrook with other meteorologists, claimed in Time Magazine that the two major storms to hit Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington, D.C., suggest that while global warming may not make hurricanes more common, it could, in the future, intensify the storms that do occur & make them increasingly more destructive."