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lallapaloosa U.S. slang.|ˌlæləpəˈluːsə,-zə|
Also lala-, lolla-, -palooser, -paloozer, etc.
[Fanciful formation.]
Something outstandingly good of its kind.
1904‘H. McHugh’ I'm from Missouri vi. 89 Saturday night we had our final parade with the fireworks finish, and it was a lallapalootza! 1909F. B. Calhoun Miss Minerva xxvi. 204 You sho' is genoowine corn-fed, sterlin' silver, all-wool-an'-a-yard-wide, pure-leaf, Green-River Lollapaloosas. 1911Dialect Notes III. 545 A second word⁓list from Nebraska... Lallapaloosa, something fine or grand; a term of approbation. ‘You have a lallapaloosa of a hat’, ‘That's a lallapaloosa.’ 1926Wodehouse Heart of Goof i. 40 To-day he had been so preoccupied with his broken heart that he had made his shots absently, almost carelessly, with the result that at least one in every three had been a lallapaloosa. 1933A. Merritt Burn Witch Burn! (1934) x. 135 She thinks this doll woman a lallapaloozer. Yeah, a lallapaloozer, a corker! 1947W. Stevens Let. 28 Feb. (1967) 547, I think that the book, as a book, is a lollapalooza. 1951New Yorker 20 Oct. 28/3 Though I had long ago forgotten the background, characters, and plot, I distinctly remembered it as a lollapaloosa. 1966Listener 2 June 811/1 What is the tone of lalapalooza, since Hector was a pup, bumbershoot, hornswoggle, Milwaukee tumour, benzine buggy—or lalapalooza's equivalent, époustouflante? 1970S. J. Perelman Baby, it's Cold Inside 172 All agreed that Luba Pneumatiç was a lollapaloosa, the Eighth Wonder of the World. |