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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hoopla
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The new casino opened amid much hoopla.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But after the hoopla, the exposition slumped, admissions at first numbering only fifteen or twenty thousand per day.
▪ Liberals are suspicious of the hoopla, and of the policy.
▪ Rockwell clearly could get women without such hoopla.
▪ The hoopla also continued well into the night outside the casinos under the eyes of Las Vegas police and security guards.
▪ The skeleton of a Ferris wheel loomed; shooting galleries and hoopla stalls were being knocked together.
▪ The very architecture of the building rebuffs any attempt at hoopla.
▪ With all this new hoopla about commercial weight-loss programs, I decided to cheek them out again.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hoopla

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
hoopla

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

WordNet
hoopla

n. blatant or sensational promotion [syn: ballyhoo, hype, plug]

Wikipedia
Hoopla

Hoopla or Hupla may refer to:

Hoopla (digital media service)

Hoopla, stylized as hoopla, is a North American on-demand Internet streaming media service of the Holland, Ohio-based company Midwest Tape.

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.