hoopla

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

hooplas

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

Nguồn gốc từ

Earlier houp-la, hoop la, c 1877, probably from French houp-là, oup-là (upsadaisy, upsy-daisy), a cry to various animals close to humans like horses and dogs, of likely origin (but see là). Compare interjections like whoop, ahoy, hoo.