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  • noun Plural form of hullabaloo.

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Examples

  • Okay sure, four were big branding hullabaloos and not a free Coke between them.

    The Olympic Torch and Being Green « Colleen Anderson 2010

  • For the first time since all the “victory hullabaloos” had begun, the sight of the happy crowds and cheerful cacophony of the firecrackers and instruments gave Paul the feeling that “perhaps the God damned war is really finished.”

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • For the first time since all the “victory hullabaloos” had begun, the sight of the happy crowds and cheerful cacophony of the firecrackers and instruments gave Paul the feeling that “perhaps the God damned war is really finished.”

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • That said, the ability to pick up on budding hullabaloos and respond to them before they become major crises is a critical leadership attribute.

    TSA debacle: How media controversies keep tripping up Obama Jena McGregor 2010

  • That said, the ability to pick up on budding hullabaloos and respond to them before they become major crises is a critical leadership attribute.

    TSA debacle: How media controversies keep tripping up Obama Jena McGregor 2010

  • And he did this without clichés, without hullabaloos, but with critical observations regarding the importance Brazilian people gives to beauty, soccer and TV.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Robert 2009

  • And he did this without clichés, without hullabaloos, but with critical observations regarding the importance Brazilian people gives to beauty, soccer and TV.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Lou Anders 2008

  • And he did this without clichés, without hullabaloos, but with critical observations regarding the importance Brazilian people gives to beauty, soccer and TV.

    Brasyl works for Brazilians! Lou Anders 2008

  • Most likely a motley assortment of hullabaloos and foofraws.

    Are you all atwitter with excitement over the Iowa caucuses? Ann Althouse 2008

  • This year I wrote about two newspaper hullabaloos: when Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene had to resign after a sexual affair came to light and the turmoil at The New York Times over the paper's aggressive coverage of the Augusta golf-club controversy.

    Media Insider 2007

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