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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See balow.

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Examples

  • Yes | No | Report from corry aldridge wrote 1 year 28 weeks ago baloo is a perfect name for your shorthair

    Name My Dog 2008

  • Three days we spent in vain endeavour to find "baloo," and on the fourth we wended our toilsome way up the hill again to Gulmarg.

    A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne

  • Yes | No | Report from baloo wrote 1 year 4 weeks ago

    Field & Stream 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from baloo wrote 1 year 4 weeks ago

    Field & Stream 2009

  • March 18, 2008 at 1:40 pm eye yam een neegow C A shunz wif mai taksman sinz himz tuk mai las howz eye sez – ju habz mai howz….. an eet dun imcreezt een baloo nao – doan dat cownt 4 N E fink?

    Colur copi bettur - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • My shikari, writhing with extreme excitement, hissed, "Baloo, sahib, baloo!" and began aimlessly running to and fro, apparently hoping to meet the bear somewhere.

    A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne

  • I came across some women mock-weeping for the dead: at their elbow two girls were washing clothes, and when little children, catching sight of me, ran to their mothers, the women stopped their hulla-baloo, had a good stare at me, exchanged a few words of mutual inquiry, and then resumed their bellowing.

    Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926

  • You see you set a bad example to the rest and it costs a mint of money to chase you every time, arousing the whole country and having such a hulla-baloo all over a worn-out old slave.

    Sunshine and Shadow of Slave Life. Reminiscences As Told by Isaac D. Williams to "Tege" 1885

  • With much of the hoola baloo about this Tax Item and that Economic Discipline, many members of Congress have put most their bargaining chips in to the pot with bluffs and hands that are not worth a lot of play or at least calling on in big pots.

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  • July 23rd, 2009 Finally after a lot of halla baloo the item girl who failed to make her mark in Bollywood, Negar Khan will be soon entering Sony's Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009

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