Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Something outstanding of its kind.
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- noun informal An
outstanding ,extreme , oroutrageous example of its kind.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In the Second World War, US soldiers distinguished Japanese spies from friendly Filipinos by their enunciation of "lollapalooza": "rorraparooza" was the wrong answer.
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"lollapalooza" effects grab hold as each of these dynamics interact with each other over the next few years.
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The suffix -palooza comes from "lollapalooza" "an outstanding example of its kind"; origin unknown.
Week in Words Erin McKean 2011
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Laura Thielen and George Eldred, the tastemeisters behind the Shortsfest short film lollapalooza, have guts so golden Glenn Beck should be hawking them on the air.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: Aspen Shortsfest Rock Short Film Michael Conniff 2011
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Online coverage from several stages, eight hours a day and free of charge, at youtube.com/lollapalooza .
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Laura Thielen and George Eldred, the tastemeisters behind the Shortsfest short film lollapalooza, have guts so golden Glenn Beck should be hawking them on the air.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: Aspen Shortsfest Rock Short Film Michael Conniff 2011
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Laura Thielen and George Eldred, the tastemeisters behind the Shortsfest short film lollapalooza, have guts so golden Glenn Beck should be hawking them on the air.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: Aspen Shortsfest Rock Short Film Michael Conniff 2011
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Laura Thielen and George Eldred, the tastemeisters behind the Shortsfest short film lollapalooza, have guts so golden Glenn Beck should be hawking them on the air.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: Aspen Shortsfest Rock Short Film Michael Conniff 2011
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Yes, this week the GOP Congress is talking about a lollapalooza annual budget cut of $100 billion.
Congress's Broken Windows Daniel Henninger 2011
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And while he takes home this lollapalooza, all the players he coaches are forbidden, by antiquated, amateur rules, to earn a living.
skipvia commented on the word lollapalooza
I remember hearing that this word was used by American soldiers in Japan during WWII as a code word since it was so difficult for Japanese soldiers to pronounce. ("Roraparooza.") Any truth to this?
October 5, 2007
reesetee commented on the word lollapalooza
Just checked OED and it gives an origin date of 1904, skipvia--only spelled lallapaloosa at the time. :-)
October 5, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word lollapalooza
Wow, skipvia. I, too, wanna know how true it is. Seems like if the word was around since 1904, it's at least possible. Hmm.
October 5, 2007
bilby commented on the word lollapalooza
"There are two pips in a beaut, four beauts in a lulu, eight lulus in a doozy, and sixteen doozies in a humdinger. No one knows how many humdingers
there are in a lollapalooza."
- George Carlin.
June 11, 2008