Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A loud noise or a condition of noisy confusion. synonym: noise.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Uproar; racket; noisy confusion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun colloq. A confused noise; uproar; tumult.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
uproar orfuss .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun disturbance usually in protest
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I'm not really sure what all the hullabaloo is about. jerezano
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I'm not really sure what all the hullabaloo is about. jerezano
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I'm not really sure what all the hullabaloo is about. jerezano
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I'm not really sure what all the hullabaloo is about. jerezano
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I'm not really sure what all the hullabaloo is about. jerezano
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I'm not really sure what all the hullabaloo is about. jerezano
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At a meta level though, I acknowledge that Princeton-style thinking has a great deal of trouble in seeing what the big hullabaloo is – LOL!
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Now I will also point out that all this hullabaloo is from a post on the author's personal blog.
When Authors Attack 2005
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I'll pick it back up tomorrow after the new year hullabaloo is over.
Archive 2005-12-01 ____Maggie 2005
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I'll pick it back up tomorrow after the new year hullabaloo is over.
Happy New Reading! ____Maggie 2005
grant_barrett commented on the word hullabaloo
This word was chosen as Wordnik word of the day.
November 11, 2009
25418050 commented on the word hullabaloo
i have no idea why... but i can't stand this word.
July 9, 2011
singr commented on the word hullabaloo
Musers like the word.
August 1, 2011