hallabaloo

hallabaloo (plural hallabaloos)

1. Alternative spelling of hullabaloo (“noise or uproar”)

• James Orchard Halliwell (1846), “HALLABALOO”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. [...] In Two Volumes (in English), volume I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, […], OCLC 1008510154, page 430, column 1.
• A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions, Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology, 1876

• hallaballo
• hallaballoo
• hallabalo

hallabaloo

1. (colloquial) hullabaloo; uproar.
   1. a very noisy and chaotic situation.
   2. a feeling of anger or arousal in the general population
2. (slang, rare) hi, howdy

• kalabalik (1.1) (a situation on the verge of getting out of control; also: about e.g. playing and shouting children)
• liv (1.1) (familiar; somewhat milder than kalabalik)
• uppståndelse (1.1, 1.2) (formal: the typical word to be heard on the news)
• folkstorm (1.2) (in tabloid papers)
• protest (1.2) (very formal, to be found in environments of bureaucracy)