Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang Something outstanding of its kind.
Wiktionary
- n. Outstanding example of its kind.
Etymologies
- Origin unknown.
Examples
“In the Second World War, US soldiers distinguished Japanese spies from friendly Filipinos by their enunciation of "lollapalooza": "rorraparooza" was the wrong answer.”
“lollapalooza" effects grab hold as each of these dynamics interact with each other over the next few years.”
“Laura Thielen and George Eldred, the tastemeisters behind the Shortsfest short film lollapalooza, have guts so golden Glenn Beck should be hawking them on the air.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Conniff: Con Games: Aspen Shortsfest Rock Short Film
“Yes, this week the GOP Congress is talking about a lollapalooza annual budget cut of $100 billion.”
“Online coverage from several stages, eight hours a day and free of charge, at youtube.com/lollapalooza .”
“The suffix -palooza comes from "lollapalooza" "an outstanding example of its kind"; origin unknown.”
“And while he takes home this lollapalooza, all the players he coaches are forbidden, by antiquated, amateur rules, to earn a living.”
“Lollapalooza (Grant Park, Loop; www. lollapalooza.com)”
“August 9th, 2010 / Posted by fp julia / Permalink lucky little fp jemma was at lollapalooza this past weekend and sent some pics for the blog – looks like it was a beautiful weekend!”
“August 12, 2010 at 10:44 am hi anonymous! unfortunately we were not able to attend lollapalooza for work. fp jemma went for fun and was nice enough to share some photos :”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lollapalooza’.
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bamboozle, ballyhoo, banter, bludgeon, chad, cocktail, culvert, curmugeon, dildo, dude, dweeb, dyke and 51 more...
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words that just sound funny
maybe it's just me but these words are fun to say or make me laugh or smile
monangahela, sisyphus, schlub, sassafrass, lollapalooza, mulligrubs, hoity-toity, hashmagandy, zenzizenzizenzic, addlepated, nincompoop, brouhaha and 3 more...
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Words listed as "origin unknown."
spang, nincompoop, lollapalooza, jive, mosey, mull, lush, dog, swizzle, swizzle stick, wonk, hootchy-kootchy and 2 more...
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Codenames for top-secret places and things.
area 51, groom lake, homey airport, dreamland, paradise ranch, the box, manhattan project, operation anthropoid, operation barbarossa, operation northwoods, operation overlord, operation sealion and 11 more...
bilby "There are two pips in a beaut, four beauts in a lulu, eight lulus in a doozy, and sixteen doozies in a humdinger. No one knows how many humdingers
there are in a lollapalooza."
- George Carlin. Jun 11, 2008
chained_bear Wow, skipvia. I, too, wanna know how true it is. Seems like if the word was around since 1904, it's at least possible. Hmm. Oct 5, 2007
reesetee Just checked OED and it gives an origin date of 1904, skipvia--only spelled lallapaloosa at the time. :-) Oct 5, 2007
skipvia I remember hearing that this word was used by American soldiers in Japan during WWII as a code word since it was so difficult for Japanese soldiers to pronounce. ("Roraparooza.") Any truth to this? Oct 5, 2007