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单词 hullabaloo
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Definition of hullabaloo in English:

hullabaloo

noun ˌhʌləbəˈluː
informal
  • A commotion; a fuss.

    remember all the hullabaloo over the golf ball?
    Example sentencesExamples
    • During the hullabaloo of that time, public support for Delta Team quickly dissolved and its equipment and troops were scattered in the wind.
    • Conservative columnists have had a field day pointing to the Harvard hullabaloo as a sign of runaway political correctness at elite universities.
    • Much hullabaloo has been made of independent internet sites and bloggers scooping the mainstream media in breaking stories and battering it to death with fact checking.
    • Do you remember the big hullabaloo when Brian Moree tabled his report on immigration.
    • But I'll tell you what, I don't get what all the hullabaloo is about with her.
    • We instantly remembered the whole hullabaloo around the release of the alien autopsy tapes back in 1995 and the controversy it caused world-wide.
    • For example, remember the hullabaloo about the so-called ‘Mozart effect’ a few years ago.
    • You can imagine the hullabaloo in the press, right?
    • There is very little point in them creating a whole hullabaloo about it.
    • I've enjoyed your coverage of the recent hullabaloo over the book on ecofascism that I co-authored and its misuse by Senator Brandis.
    • Unfortunately, the neighbours create a hullabaloo into the small hours, which has made getting to sleep very bothersome.
    • When the hullabaloo was over, a leader revealed that it was just a casual chat on the political developments.
    • When a new car is launched - especially one as important to the North-East as this one - it is all too easy to become overwhelmed by the corporate hullabaloo.
    • The hullabaloo following this seemed to unsettled Laois who appeared to lose their concentration, and this very nearly proved to be their undoing.
    • So what's the entire hullabaloo about, many tend to ask.
    • Somewhere in the hullabaloo, she got to thinking, ‘Why do we do this, anyway?’
    • But the festivities will be cut abruptly short by the anniversary, which Hoboken will mark in a manner far more sombre and sober than the hullabaloo over the river.
    • Another Los Angeles resident Joe Malkin said, ‘I couldn't understand what all the hullabaloo was about.’
    • Take the hullabaloo about the shooting party, reported to include the Duke of Edinburgh, which shot some pheasant on the Sandringham estate in view of some schoolchildren.
    • Free trade does not lower wages or cause persistent unemployment There is nothing new in the current hullabaloo about free trade, jobs, and trade deficits.
    Synonyms
    fuss, commotion, uproar, hubbub, outcry, furore, ruckus, ado, palaver, brouhaha, hue and cry
    pandemonium, mayhem, tumult, turmoil, hurly-burly
    roar, racket, din, noise, clamour, bedlam, babel
    informal rumpus, ruction, hoo-ha, to-do, song and dance
    British informal kerfuffle, carry-on, row

Origin

Mid 18th century: reduplication of hallo, hullo, etc..

Rhymes

accrue, adieu, ado, anew, Anjou, aperçu, askew, ballyhoo, 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, 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 hullabaloo in US English:

hullabaloo

noun
informal
  • A commotion; a fuss.

    remember all the hullabaloo over the golf ball?
    Example sentencesExamples
    • During the hullabaloo of that time, public support for Delta Team quickly dissolved and its equipment and troops were scattered in the wind.
    • Another Los Angeles resident Joe Malkin said, ‘I couldn't understand what all the hullabaloo was about.’
    • We instantly remembered the whole hullabaloo around the release of the alien autopsy tapes back in 1995 and the controversy it caused world-wide.
    • There is very little point in them creating a whole hullabaloo about it.
    • Somewhere in the hullabaloo, she got to thinking, ‘Why do we do this, anyway?’
    • But I'll tell you what, I don't get what all the hullabaloo is about with her.
    • Unfortunately, the neighbours create a hullabaloo into the small hours, which has made getting to sleep very bothersome.
    • But the festivities will be cut abruptly short by the anniversary, which Hoboken will mark in a manner far more sombre and sober than the hullabaloo over the river.
    • Conservative columnists have had a field day pointing to the Harvard hullabaloo as a sign of runaway political correctness at elite universities.
    • When a new car is launched - especially one as important to the North-East as this one - it is all too easy to become overwhelmed by the corporate hullabaloo.
    • You can imagine the hullabaloo in the press, right?
    • Do you remember the big hullabaloo when Brian Moree tabled his report on immigration.
    • The hullabaloo following this seemed to unsettled Laois who appeared to lose their concentration, and this very nearly proved to be their undoing.
    • When the hullabaloo was over, a leader revealed that it was just a casual chat on the political developments.
    • For example, remember the hullabaloo about the so-called ‘Mozart effect’ a few years ago.
    • I've enjoyed your coverage of the recent hullabaloo over the book on ecofascism that I co-authored and its misuse by Senator Brandis.
    • Take the hullabaloo about the shooting party, reported to include the Duke of Edinburgh, which shot some pheasant on the Sandringham estate in view of some schoolchildren.
    • Free trade does not lower wages or cause persistent unemployment There is nothing new in the current hullabaloo about free trade, jobs, and trade deficits.
    • So what's the entire hullabaloo about, many tend to ask.
    • Much hullabaloo has been made of independent internet sites and bloggers scooping the mainstream media in breaking stories and battering it to death with fact checking.
    Synonyms
    fuss, commotion, uproar, hubbub, outcry, furore, ruckus, ado, palaver, brouhaha, hue and cry

Origin

Mid 18th century: reduplication of hallo, hullo, etc..

 
 
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