Meaning of Hoopla | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A bustling to-do, excited speech or noise.
   countable, uncountable
2. A carnival game in which the player attempts to throw hoops around pegs.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

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