Hullabaloo

/ˌhʌləbəˈluː/ · noun

Meaning

A clamour, a commotion; a fuss or uproar..

Definitions by Sense

1. A clamour, a commotion; a fuss or uproar.
2. (intransitive) To make a commotion or uproar.

Example Sentences

They made such a hullabaloo about the change that the authorities were forced to change it back.

[…]The truth of all this hullaballoo was that Rigby had a sly pension which, by an inevitable association of ideas, he always connected with the maintenance of an Aristocracy.

Certainly they had brought with them some rotten hippo–meat, which couldn’t have lasted very long, anyway, even if the pilgrims hadn’t, in the midst of a shocking hullabaloo, thrown a considerable quantity of it overboard.

'Sarah, could you bring me the calendar from the wall over there? Does it say the right date?' 'Two days behind – and small wonder no one tore it off with all the hullaballoo going on. Ever so pretty, isn't it?' said Sarah as she handed the calendar to Jessamy.

He was so fascinated by the sight of this bald wolf that he would have lost his flock, perhaps himself been eaten and certainly been beaten to the bone for negligence had not the goats themselves raised their heads, snuffed danger and run off, bleating and whinnying, so that the men came, firing guns, making hullabaloo, scaring the wolves away.

They roared, they danced, they hullaballoed, they pinched one another; they behaved like young savages – but I knew I had got them safe.

"Nonsense, child," said my father, smiling. "Did you ever see a stone thrown into the pond? there's a great splash, and a few circles on the water, and that's about all, isn't it? Well, when I die there'll be a great splash of tears and hullaballooing, and a few circles of tender recollections, and then the surface will smooth itself over, and it'll be all right again."

Ho, hullaballoing clan / Agape, with woe / In your beaks, on the gabbing capes!

Synonyms for hullabaloo

Antonyms for hullabaloo

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Word Forms

• hullabaloos
• hallaballoo
• hallabaloo
• hulabaloo
• hullaballoo
• hellaballoo
• hellabaloo
• hullabalooing
• hullabalooed

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