Hoopla

Quick meaning: Hoopla is a noun meaning A bustling to-do, excited speech or noise.

Meaning

A bustling to-do, excited speech or noise.

More Meanings

1. A carnival game in which the player attempts to throw hoops around pegs.

Example Sentences

Campers enjoyed all of the traditional camp hoopla: color wars, shared team games with other camps and young eager college students spending their summer as counselors.

Say you don't know me, or recognize my face / Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place / Knee deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight / Too many runaways eating up the night

Some astronomers dislike the whole supermoon hoopla. They point out that the term originated with astrology, not astronomy; that perigee full moons are not all that rare, coming an average of every 13 months; and that their apparently swollen dimensions are often as much a matter of optical illusion and wishful blinking as of relative lunar nearness.

Word Forms

• hooplas

Synonyms for hoopla

Depending on context, synonyms include plug, ballyhoo, hype.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ballyhoo, hype, plug, commotion, flap, buildup.

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