hooplas

Noun

hoopla (countable and uncountable, plural hooplas)

1. A bustling to-do, excited speech or noise.
   • Say you don't know me, or recognize my face / Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place / Knee deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight / Too many runaways eating up the night1985, “We Built This City”, in Bernie Taupin, Martin Page, Dennis Lambert, Peter Wolf (music), Knee Deep in the Hoopla, performed by Starship
2. A carnival game in which the player attempts to throw hoops around pegs.