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hellabaloo

hellabaloo is the archaic form of hullabaloo.

Meaning of hullabaloo

Noun

hullabaloo (countable and uncountable, plural hullabaloos)

  1. A clamour, a commotion; a fuss or uproar.
    • They made such a hullabaloo about the change that the authorities were forced to change it back.

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Forms of hellabaloo

pluralhellabaloos

Questions about hellabaloo

What is hellabaloo the archaic form of?
Hellabaloo is the archaic form of hullabaloo.

Words near hellabaloo in the dictionary

  1. hell-roaring
  2. hella
  3. hella-
  4. hellaballoo
  5. hellaballoos
  6. hellabaloo
  7. hellabaloos
  8. hellabyte
  9. hellabytes
  10. hellacious
  11. hellaciously

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hellabaloo (page history and authors); hullabaloo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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