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Definition of ballyhoo in English: ballyhoonoun balɪˈhuːˈbæliˌhu mass nouninformal Extravagant publicity or fuss. after all the ballyhoo, the film was a flop Example sentencesExamples - Over the two-disc set are enough bonus features, biographical material, and nostalgic Tinseltown ballyhoo to have even the most exacting film fan jumping for joy.
- And amidst all the teenage jeers and overall ballyhoo, one serious middle-aged man said, ‘I want to believe’.
- It opened amidst much ballyhoo in the US in October, but audiences forgot to show up.
- Personally I think this is a load of ballyhoo, because the photograph is just to represent what the food will look like - you don't eat a photograph, now do you!
- There was a lot of press ballyhoo last week about a new licensing paradigm for the music industry on the Internet.
- It certainly gets an awful lot of ballyhoo from well before its arrival.
- The ballyhoo with which the film has been received has to be attributed, at least in part, to the impoverishment of field from which it springs.
- The recent ballyhoo about debt relief for 14 African countries was wildly overblown; it was no more than a modest first step.
- For the fans of the genre, who have heard and read about the movie in the various fan mags, all the hype is not just empty wagging and ballyhoo.
- This is a refreshing departure from the self-satisfied ballyhoo typical of rockstars.
- Plastered on every available storefront, barn, bus bench, and shoeshine stand was a poster seducing you with an attractive couple in mid-kiss and black bold-faced ballyhoo exploding all around them.
- Digital technology comes to us heralded by a great deal of utopian ballyhoo, but in some surprising ways it discourages creativity.
- But, generally speaking, commercialism has a big role to play in all this ballyhoo.
- There's a lot of ballyhoo involved in getting a taxi in this country.
- Biohazard is a perfect example of this newfound ballyhoo.
- With loud hurrahs from appropriate quarters and much general ballyhoo, my friend went along to that victory parade in London.
- Admittedly, he owes his fame largely to the media ballyhoo, but he's fed and clothed by the readers who have bought his books.
- There has been a lot of ballyhoo about all these developments, but it is worth noting that these deals will be worthless unless new legislation is passed to modernise the law on casinos.
- I myself am not above such occasional ballyhoo, most recently biting the hook hard on recently fashionable hyphenated mergers of electronics and rock, be it dance-punk or lap-pop or lance-ponk.
- A piece of genuine, if faded and controversial US-style ballyhoo, will take place.
Synonyms publicity, advertising, promotion, marketing, propaganda, push, puffery, build-up, boosting commotion, fuss, ado, flurry, excitement, ferment, tumult, hurly-burly, hue and cry, bustle, hustle and bustle informal hype, spiel, hoo-ha, hullabaloo, flap, song and dance, splash British informal kerfuffle, carry-on New Zealand informal bobsy-die
verbballyhooed, ballyhooing, ballyhoos balɪˈhuːˈbæliˌhu [with object]North American informal Praise or publicize extravagantly. each company ballyhoos its product as though it were the most outstanding in all creation a much-ballyhooed musical extravaganza Example sentencesExamples - Interestingly, while Expo 2000 was much ballyhooed in Germany, at least at its beginning, it caused hardly a stir on this side of the Atlantic, either in the media or through word of mouth.
- Not only was she far from a leading candidate to win a world title, she was not even the most - ballyhooed individual medley performer on the American team.
- Meanwhile, ballyhooed efforts by state and federal prosecutors to build an investor restitution fund are more rhetoric than reality.
- Plenty of other defensive tackles stand out over their more ballyhooed partners at defensive end.
- Surprisingly, it was their ironclad no-name defense more than their much ballyhooed three-pronged attack that got them there.
- They are both very career-oriented, and my son takes great pride in ballyhooing his wife's progress at her company.
- Meanwhile, seniors are shunning the new prescription coverage ballyhooed by the White House.
- Appealingly cast, the show was much ballyhooed in its day by members of the size acceptance community.
- They were ballyhooing this very motion picture, in fact.
- In Britain, the show has been ballyhooed by the political caste, which isn't surprising, since it glorifies their trade.
- Although much ballyhooed, installation rates in the luxury-car segment are expected to grow only by 10%, despite many more models offering the feature.
- But why is the work of this small, blonde, blazingly confident woman of Russian-Jewish extraction so ballyhooed?
- Even the much ballyhooed special effects manage to break down spectacularly in a couple of scenes.
- At issue was a widely ballyhooed test of the razzle-dazzle, video-arcade, anti-missile-defense scheme known as Star Wars.
- There it was shown and concurrently ballyhooed, with reproductions of some of the drawings, in a 1912 newspaper article.
- From Washington tonight, we'll report that we're all working harder than ever for less, while politicians ballyhoo our higher productivity.
- He himself ballyhooed the moral lessons to be learned from the unpacking of the human genome.
- These groups are ballyhooing the fact that world-wide coffee prices have fallen to a 30-year low.
- I knew some major changes would be wrought in the film the first time I saw the trailer ballyhooing the arrival on local screens.
- It is certainly better than the other much ballyhooed debut novel.
Origin Late 19th century: American coinage of unknown origin. Rhymes accrue, adieu, ado, anew, Anjou, aperçu, askew, bamboo, bedew, bestrew, billet-doux, blew, blue, boo, boohoo, brew, buckaroo, canoe, chew, clew, clou, clue, cock-a-doodle-doo, cockatoo, construe, coo, Corfu, coup, crew, Crewe, cru, cue, déjà vu, derring-do, dew, didgeridoo, do, drew, due, endue, ensue, eschew, feu, few, flew, flu, flue, foreknew, glue, gnu, goo, grew, halloo, hereto, hew, Hindu, hitherto, how-do-you-do, hue, Hugh, hullabaloo, imbrue, imbue, jackaroo, Jew, kangaroo, Karroo, Kathmandu, kazoo, Kiangsu, knew, Kru, K2, kung fu, Lahu, Lanzhou, Lao-tzu, lasso, lieu, loo, Lou, Manchu, mangetout, mew, misconstrue, miscue, moo, moue, mu, nardoo, new, non-U, nu, ooh, outdo, outflew, outgrew, peekaboo, Peru, pew, plew, Poitou, pooh, pooh-pooh, potoroo, pursue, queue, revue, roo, roux, rue, Selous, set-to, shampoo, shih-tzu, shoe, shoo, shrew, Sioux, skean dhu, skew, skidoo, slew, smew, snafu, sou, spew, sprue, stew, strew, subdue, sue, switcheroo, taboo, tattoo, thereto, thew, threw, thro, through, thru, tickety-boo, Timbuktu, tiramisu, to, to-do, too, toodle-oo, true, true-blue, tu-whit tu-whoo, two, vendue, view, vindaloo, virtu, wahoo, wallaroo, Waterloo, well-to-do, whereto, whew, who, withdrew, woo, Wu, yew, you, zoo Definition of ballyhoo in US English: ballyhoonounˈbalēˌho͞oˈbæliˌhu informal Extravagant publicity or fuss. after all the ballyhoo, the film was a flop Example sentencesExamples - A piece of genuine, if faded and controversial US-style ballyhoo, will take place.
- Personally I think this is a load of ballyhoo, because the photograph is just to represent what the food will look like - you don't eat a photograph, now do you!
- It certainly gets an awful lot of ballyhoo from well before its arrival.
- There has been a lot of ballyhoo about all these developments, but it is worth noting that these deals will be worthless unless new legislation is passed to modernise the law on casinos.
- And amidst all the teenage jeers and overall ballyhoo, one serious middle-aged man said, ‘I want to believe’.
- I myself am not above such occasional ballyhoo, most recently biting the hook hard on recently fashionable hyphenated mergers of electronics and rock, be it dance-punk or lap-pop or lance-ponk.
- There's a lot of ballyhoo involved in getting a taxi in this country.
- It opened amidst much ballyhoo in the US in October, but audiences forgot to show up.
- This is a refreshing departure from the self-satisfied ballyhoo typical of rockstars.
- Over the two-disc set are enough bonus features, biographical material, and nostalgic Tinseltown ballyhoo to have even the most exacting film fan jumping for joy.
- Digital technology comes to us heralded by a great deal of utopian ballyhoo, but in some surprising ways it discourages creativity.
- Admittedly, he owes his fame largely to the media ballyhoo, but he's fed and clothed by the readers who have bought his books.
- With loud hurrahs from appropriate quarters and much general ballyhoo, my friend went along to that victory parade in London.
- Biohazard is a perfect example of this newfound ballyhoo.
- For the fans of the genre, who have heard and read about the movie in the various fan mags, all the hype is not just empty wagging and ballyhoo.
- Plastered on every available storefront, barn, bus bench, and shoeshine stand was a poster seducing you with an attractive couple in mid-kiss and black bold-faced ballyhoo exploding all around them.
- There was a lot of press ballyhoo last week about a new licensing paradigm for the music industry on the Internet.
- The ballyhoo with which the film has been received has to be attributed, at least in part, to the impoverishment of field from which it springs.
- The recent ballyhoo about debt relief for 14 African countries was wildly overblown; it was no more than a modest first step.
- But, generally speaking, commercialism has a big role to play in all this ballyhoo.
Synonyms publicity, advertising, promotion, marketing, propaganda, push, puffery, build-up, boosting
verbˈbalēˌho͞oˈbæliˌhu [with object]North American informal Praise or publicize extravagantly. a much-ballyhooed musical extravaganza Example sentencesExamples - From Washington tonight, we'll report that we're all working harder than ever for less, while politicians ballyhoo our higher productivity.
- Interestingly, while Expo 2000 was much ballyhooed in Germany, at least at its beginning, it caused hardly a stir on this side of the Atlantic, either in the media or through word of mouth.
- These groups are ballyhooing the fact that world-wide coffee prices have fallen to a 30-year low.
- Surprisingly, it was their ironclad no-name defense more than their much ballyhooed three-pronged attack that got them there.
- Plenty of other defensive tackles stand out over their more ballyhooed partners at defensive end.
- They are both very career-oriented, and my son takes great pride in ballyhooing his wife's progress at her company.
- Not only was she far from a leading candidate to win a world title, she was not even the most - ballyhooed individual medley performer on the American team.
- Appealingly cast, the show was much ballyhooed in its day by members of the size acceptance community.
- He himself ballyhooed the moral lessons to be learned from the unpacking of the human genome.
- I knew some major changes would be wrought in the film the first time I saw the trailer ballyhooing the arrival on local screens.
- Meanwhile, seniors are shunning the new prescription coverage ballyhooed by the White House.
- Although much ballyhooed, installation rates in the luxury-car segment are expected to grow only by 10%, despite many more models offering the feature.
- But why is the work of this small, blonde, blazingly confident woman of Russian-Jewish extraction so ballyhooed?
- Meanwhile, ballyhooed efforts by state and federal prosecutors to build an investor restitution fund are more rhetoric than reality.
- There it was shown and concurrently ballyhooed, with reproductions of some of the drawings, in a 1912 newspaper article.
- Even the much ballyhooed special effects manage to break down spectacularly in a couple of scenes.
- At issue was a widely ballyhooed test of the razzle-dazzle, video-arcade, anti-missile-defense scheme known as Star Wars.
- In Britain, the show has been ballyhooed by the political caste, which isn't surprising, since it glorifies their trade.
- It is certainly better than the other much ballyhooed debut novel.
- They were ballyhooing this very motion picture, in fact.
Origin Late 19th century: American coinage of unknown origin. |