hullabaloo
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Synonyms
ado, alarums and excursions, ballyhoo, blather, bluster, bobbery, bother, bustle, clatter, clutter [chiefly dialect], coil, commotion, corroboree [Australian], disturbance, do [chiefly dialect], foofaraw, fun, furor, furore, fuss, helter-skelter, hoo-ha (also hoo-hah), hoopla, hubble-bubble, hubbub, hurly, hurly-burly, hurricane, hurry, hurry-scurry (or hurry-skurry), kerfuffle [chiefly British], moil, pandemonium, pother, row, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, shindy, splore [Scottish], squall, stew, stir, storm, to-do, tumult, turmoil, uproar, welter, whirl, williwaw, zoo
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But lost in all of that hullabaloo is a pretty solid music lineup that’s headlined by a couple of national touring acts. — Chip Mccabe, courant.com, "The best bands and music you’ll hear at this year’s country fairs," 30 July 2019 Recommendations: Arielle recommends staying on top of the latest online hullabaloo by going to Reddit’s r/outoftheloop subreddit. — Wired Staff, WIRED, "Twitter’s Redesign Is Impressive. Is It Enough?," 19 July 2019 The hullabaloo couldn’t, however, erase the impression of a Kamala Harris the public had never before seen, or the tone of her self-pitying attack on Mr. Biden that went back decades to the busing era. — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, "Kamala Harris’s Debate Victory Proves Pyrrhic," 10 July 2019 Like a February snowstorm, the Chicago Auto Show blew into town with great hullabaloo then seemed to fade. — Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, "Chicago Auto Show winners and losers," 16 Feb. 2018 Pregame questions were not raised and no homecoming hullabaloo was harbored for the 24-year-old righthander who ended a magnificent month. — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, "Lance McCullers thwarts his hometown Rays in Astros' shutout win," 28 June 2018 There was no mention of last week's embarrassing jacket hullabaloo. — Gregory Korte, USA TODAY, "First lady Melania Trump wears palazzo pants, but no snarky jacket, on new border visit," 28 June 2018 The five, for all the hullabaloo about pardons, that's all Donald Trump has had. — Fox News, "Odd-man out? President Trump talks trade, tariffs at the G7 summit," 9 June 2018 Same with minimizing the hullabaloo around those parts of the competition during the live broadcast. — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, "The Case For Miss America's Swimsuit Competition," 6 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'hullabaloo.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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