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Ballyhoo
Answer for the clue "Ballyhoo ", 6 letters:
hoopla
Alternative clues for the word hoopla
Word definitions for hoopla in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1877, hoop la , American English, earlier houp-la , exclamation accompanying quick movement (1870), of unknown origin, perhaps borrowed from French houp-là "upsy-daisy," also a cry to dogs, horses, etc. (see whoop ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a bustling to-do, excited speech or noise, usually loud 2 a carnival game in which the player attempts to throw hoops around pegs
Usage examples of hoopla.
Without hoopla or fanfare, a patent clerk from Bern, Switzerland, had completely overturned the traditional notions of space and time and replaced them with a new conception whose properties fly in the face of everything we are familiar with from common experience.
We had hoped to sneak through the conservancy district, your dam, Ladd, without much hoopla.
No more would that rolling theater ever come bouncing and steaming and blaring rhythm and blues and Houlihan hoopla up the drive all full of speed and plans and hammering hearts.