Hoopla
/ˈhuːplɑ/ noun
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A bustling to-do, excited speech or noise. countable, uncountable
"Say you don't know me, or recognize my face / Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place / Knee deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight / Too many runaways eating up the night"
- 2 blatant or sensational promotion wordnet
- 3 A carnival game in which the player attempts to throw hoops around pegs. countable, uncountable
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More examples"Say you don't know me, or recognize my face / Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place / Knee deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight / Too many runaways eating up the night"
Etymology
Earlier houp-la, hoop la, first attested in c. 1877, probably from French houp-là, oup-là (“upsadaisy, upsy-daisy”), a cry to various animals close to humans like horses and dogs, of likely onomatopoeic origin (but see là). Compare interjections like whoop, ahoy, hoo.