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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