hullabaloo
noun [S] /ˌhʌl.ə.bəˈluː/ old-fashionedDefinition
› a loud noise made by people who are angry or annoyed: There's a crowd of angry demonstrators making a real hullabaloo outside the Houses of Parliament. The minister resigned after all the hullabaloo (= public disapproval) over his affair with an actress.Noise and noisy
(Definition of hullabaloo noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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