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Hoopla

//ˈhuːplɑ// noun

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Noun
  1. 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. 2
    blatant or sensational promotion wordnet
  3. 3
    A carnival game in which the player attempts to throw hoops around pegs. countable, uncountable

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.

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