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Hullabaloo   /hˌələbəlˈu/   Listen
Hullabaloo

noun
1.
Disturbance usually in protest.  Synonyms: agitation, excitement, turmoil, upheaval.






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"Hullabaloo" Quotes from Famous Books



... shrieked aloud, her voice would have been drowned in the general hullabaloo. This noise was all intentional on the part of the Gypsies, for up at the head of the caravan Ruth caught a glimpse of a big man standing with a stout oak club in his hand and a big shiny star pinned to his vest ...
— Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies - The Missing Pearl Necklace • Alice B. Emerson

... yet I feel the humiliation of thinking all the better of a man because a great hullabaloo of other men have declared before the world that they want him for President of these United States. This is weak, but natural—natural, but awfully weak. Why should we let crowds of men we never saw judge for us? But then, how are we to ...
— Phemie Frost's Experiences • Ann S. Stephens

... more generally "Naddabah" Lat. praefica or carina, a hired mourner, the Irish "Keener" at the conclamatio or coronach, where the Hullabaloo, Hulululu or ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton

... A terrible hullabaloo between a pair of Opossums up a neighbouring gum tree arrested the attention of both Dot and the Koala. Presently the sounds of snarling, spitting, and screaming ended, and an Opossum climbed out to the far end of a branch, where the moonlight shone on his grey ...
— Dot and the Kangaroo • Ethel C. Pedley

... A terrific hullabaloo came up from below. A roar of laughter and the babble of male voices was mixed with the rumble of wheels and the pistol-like ...
— Colorado Jim • George Goodchild



Words linked to "Hullabaloo" :   agitation, disturbance, excitement



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