hullabaloo
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Synonyms
ado, ballyhoo, blather, bluster, bobbery, bother, bustle, clatter, commotion, disturbance, foofaraw, fun, furor, furore, fuss, helter-skelter, hoopla, hubbub, hurly, hurly-burly, pandemonium, pother, row, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, shindy, squall, stew, stir, storm, to-do, tumult, turmoil, uproar, welter, whirl, williwaw, zoo
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Like a February snowstorm, the Chicago Auto Show blew into town with great hullabaloo then seemed to fade. — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, "Chicago Auto Show winners and losers," 16 Feb. 2018 Pregame questions were not raised and no homecoming hullabaloo was harbored for the 24-year-old righthander who ended a magnificent month. — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, "Lance McCullers thwarts his hometown Rays in Astros' shutout win," 28 June 2018 There was no mention of last week's embarrassing jacket hullabaloo. — Gregory Korte, USA TODAY, "First lady Melania Trump wears palazzo pants, but no snarky jacket, on new border visit," 28 June 2018 The five, for all the hullabaloo about pardons, that's all Donald Trump has had. — Fox News, "Odd-man out? President Trump talks trade, tariffs at the G7 summit," 9 June 2018 Same with minimizing the hullabaloo around those parts of the competition during the live broadcast. — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, "The Case For Miss America's Swimsuit Competition," 6 June 2018 The semi-autonomous hands-free driving system works well on the highway, without all the promotional hullabaloo of the competitors. — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, "2018 Genesis G80 Sport is much more than a Hyundai," 9 Oct. 2017 Back in California, despite all the hullabaloo on the left, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) crushed her primary challenger. — James Hohmann, Washington Post, "The Daily 202: The Democratic establishment strikes back in California, New Jersey and other primaries," 6 June 2018 The hullabaloo about Kanye West’s nonsensical rants, the Bill Cosby conviction and the movement to mute R. Kelly has exposed a clear line of demarcation with two opposing sides. The first side needs no introduction. — Michael Harriot, The Root, "White America is 'Publicly Lynching' Black Men ... But Not Kanye, Cosby or R. Kelly," 3 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'hullabaloo.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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hullabaloo
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English Language Learners Definition of hullabaloo
: a very noisy and confused situation
: a situation in which many people are upset and angry about something
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