What is "hullaballoo"

Usage examples of "hullaballoo".

His sigh was a hullaballoo, His whisper a horrible yell - A horrible, horrible yell!

Pete Jenkins, with all the attendant hullaballoo before he got up to the trap and revealed himself as Maurice and turned into blue lightning.

The aged bosun already had his call to his lips as the Marine hurried past him to strike the bell - a sound almost invariably followed by the enormous hullaballoo of cooks bawling out mess numbers, men running and roaring with mess-kids, sailors beating on their plates and banging tables, but on this occasion strangely muted.

The reason why I remember it is because I swallowed it, and the ensuing hullaballoo left a deep impression on my infant mind.

But that was nothing to the hullaballoo in the town the next day, sir - people running about and screeching and letting off muskets, like a revolution .

In the subsequent roaring and hullaballoo everyone grew human again, remaining natural long enough for Jack to reach the point he had been looking forward to since the beginning of dinner.

But scarcely was his file in its proper place before a far greater hullaballoo broke out: as the Viper filled and gathered way all the men from Shelmerston and all those Surprises who were deserters raced up into the weather shrouds, facing the cutter.

But he spoke so gently for fear of giving offence, that, in the midst of the cheerful hullaballoo, his words had no influence whatsoever upon public opinion.

And in mid-afternoon came hubbub and hullaballoo from without, as a procession of royal floaters bearing the starburst emblem drew up outside.

There was only three of us, and the odds was two to one, sir, and then such a hullaballoo broke out .