Hullabaloo

Hullabaloo

The word "hullabaloo" is an English noun meaning an uproar or fuss. Hullabaloo may also refer to:
*Hullabaloo a general name for some performance, celebration or other noisy event
*Hullabaloos the name given to a particularly insensitive group of renters from London of the boat 'Margoletta' hired on the Norfolk Broads in Arthur Ransome's novel for children, Coot Club
*"Hullabaloo" (film), a 1940 film
*"Hullabaloo" (TV series), an 1960s NBC musical variety series
*"Hullabaloo" (The Farm album), a 1994 album by British indie band The Farm
*"Hullabaloo Soundtrack", a 2002 album and DVD by the British alternative rock band Muse
*Hullabaloo (rave), a rave production company run by DJ Anabolic Frolic
*The "Tulane Hullabaloo", the student newspaper of Tulane University
*A noisy and inconsiderate party of city-dwellers, hirers of the "Margoletta" according to the protagonists of Arthur Ransome's novel "Coot Club"
*Hullabaloo (club), a 1960s rock and roll club in Los Angeles
*Hullabaloo (festival), aka The Great Hullabaloo, a music arts festival originally slated in 1976 for Idaho Falls, Idaho
*Hullabaloo (blog), a political blog.
* Hullabaloo, Caneck! Caneck!, the beginning phrase of the Aggie War Hymn.

;See also
*The Hullaballoos, a British Invasion rock and roll band
*"Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard", a 1971 book by Kiran Desai


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  • Hullabaloo — Концертный альбом Muse Дата выпуска 1 июля 2002 Записан март 1999 октябрь 2001 Жан …   Википедия

  • Hullabaloo — Soundtrack Album par Muse Sortie 1er juillet 2002 Enregistrement 28 et 29 octrobre 2001 (disque 1, faces B) mars 1999 (disque 2, live) …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Hullabaloo — Hul la*ba*loo , n. [Perh. a corruption of hurly burly.] A confused noise; uproar; tumult. [Colloq.] Thackeray. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • hullabaloo — index noise, outcry Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • hullabaloo — 1762, hollo ballo uproar, chiefly in northern England and Scottish, perhaps a rhyming reduplication of hollo (see HELLO (Cf. hello)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • hullabaloo — *din, uproar, pandemonium, babel, hubbub, clamor, racket …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • hullabaloo — [n] uproar bedlam, big scene*, brouhaha, chaos, clamor, commotion, confusion, free for all*, furor, fuss, hassle, hubbub, hue and cry, mayhem, melee, noise, pandemonium, racket*, riot, row, ruckus, to do*; concepts 46,65,106,230,384,388,674 …   New thesaurus

  • hullabaloo — ► NOUN informal ▪ a commotion or uproar. ORIGIN reduplication of hallo, hullo, etc …   English terms dictionary

  • hullabaloo — [hul′ə bə lo͞o΄] n. [echoic dupl. based on HULLO] loud noise and confusion; hubbub …   English World dictionary

  • hullabaloo — hul|la|ba|loo [ˌhʌləbəˈlu:, ˈhʌləbəlu:] n [singular] informal [Date: 1700 1800; Origin: Perhaps from hello + Scottish English balloo a word used to make children keep quiet] 1.) excited talk, newspaper stories etc, especially when something… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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