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hoopla

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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hoop·la /ˈhuːplɑː $ ˈhuːp-, ˈhʊp-/ noun [uncountable]  1 especially American EnglishADVERTISE excitement about something which attracts a lot of public attention 喧闹,沸沸扬扬 all the hoopla that surrounded the trial 围绕这次审判的纷纷议论2. British EnglishDG a game in which prizes can be won by throwing a ring over an object from a distance 投环套物游戏
Examples from the Corpus
hooplaThe skeleton of a Ferris wheel loomed; shooting galleries and hoopla stalls were being knocked together.The very architecture of the building rebuffs any attempt at hoopla.The new casino opened amid much hoopla.With all this new hoopla about commercial weight-loss programs, I decided to cheek them out again.Rockwell clearly could get women without such hoopla.But after the hoopla, the exposition slumped, admissions at first numbering only fifteen or twenty thousand per day.Liberals are suspicious of the hoopla, and of the policy.The hoopla also continued well into the night outside the casinos under the eyes of Las Vegas police and security guards.
Origin hoopla (1800-1900) French houp-là, a word expressing sudden movement
hoop·la nounChineseSyllable
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hoopla
hoopla /ˈhuːplɑː $ ˈhuːp-, ˈhʊp-/ noun [uncountable]
 Date: 1800-1900
 Language: French
 Origin: houp-là, a word expressing sudden movement
1. especially American English excitement about something which attracts a lot of public attention:
    all the hoopla that surrounded the trial
2. British English a game in which prizes can be won by throwing a ring over an object from a distance


hooplaBrE /ˈhuːplɑː/ 🔊NAmE /ˈhuːplɑː/ 🔊 noun [uncountable, singular] (informal, especially NAmE) excitement about sth which gets a lot of public attention 大吹大擂;喧闹 [uncountable] (BrE) (NAmE ring·toss) a game in which players try to throw rings over objects in order to win them as prizes 套圈游戏;投环套物