hulabaloo

plural hulabaloos

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of hullabaloo.

   Then comes Conte Lorenzago, picceering into the hall, to add to the hulabaloo; and there he kept singing out, about your loss; […]

   1810, [Catherine Cuthbertson], chapter XII, in Forest of Montalbano: […], volume I, London: […] George Robinson, […], →OCLC, page 238

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   It is said that the newspapers, the stump speakers, and the widespread discussions of political questions that precede our elections, make the best posted people on questions of political economy in the world. […] If this is true, it is a marvelous fact, an amazing commentary upon our boasted civilization, a biting irony upon the election and Fourth of July hulabaloos that do so abound and are so like the plunging Niagara.

   1884, “A Few Words on Geology in the Schools—[…] ”, in History of Wayne and Clay Counties, Illinois. […], Chicago, Ill.: Globe Publishing Co., […], →OCLC, part I (History of Wayne County), page 13, column 2

   The Christmas monkeys came again this year. The little bastards. They brought monkey poo to throw. They always do. They came down the chimney, amid scratches and chatters and all manner of hulabaloo.

   2013, Joe R[ichard] Lansdale, “Christmas Monkeys”, in Bleeding Shadows: Stories, Burton, Mich.: Subterranean Press, →ISBN, page 69