hullabaloo
pronunciation
How to pronounce hullabaloo in British English:
UK [ˌhʌləbəˈlu:]
How to pronounce hullabaloo in American English:
US [ˈhʌləbəˌlu]
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- Noun:
- disturbance usually in protest
Word Origin
- hullabaloo (n.)
- 1762, hollo-ballo "uproar," chiefly in northern England and Scottish, perhaps a rhyming reduplication of hollo (see hello).
Example
- 1. In which you can stay away city hullabaloo .
- 2. As the hullabaloo of the banking crisis fades , it seems increasingly to have been a kind of distraction from the wider topic .
- 3. They like to live in the countryside , far way from crowd and hullabaloo .
- 4. Yet it is difficult to understand what the hullabaloo is all about .
- 5. Unions argue that the hullabaloo has done wonders for their cause .