Why so much hoopla?
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Hoopla
//ˈhuːplɑ//
Synonyms for "hoopla" (65 found)
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Closest matches (13)
Strong matches (20)
Related words (32)
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Translations
8 translations across 4 languages.
German
3 entries- Bohei noun (clamour, brouhaha)
- Gedöns noun (clamour, brouhaha)
- Rummel noun (clamour, brouhaha)
Greek
1 entries- κρίκοι noun (a carnival with throwing hoops)
Macedonian
1 entries- вре́ва noun (clamour, brouhaha)
Russian
3 entries- ажиота́ж noun (clamour, brouhaha)
- кутерьма́ noun (clamour, brouhaha)
- шуми́ха noun (clamour, brouhaha)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
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
Source: wiktionary
Campers enjoyed all of the traditional camp hoopla: color wars, shared team games with other camps and young eager college students spending their summer as counselors.
Source: wiktionary
Some astronomers dislike the whole supermoon hoopla. They point out that the term originated with astrology, not astronomy; that perigee full moons are not all that rare, coming an average of every 13 months; and that their apparently swollen dimensions are often as much a matter of optical illusion and wishful blinking as of relative lunar nearness.
Source: wiktionary
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