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houp-la

houp-la is the obsolete form of hoopla.

Meaning of hoopla

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.

Forms of houp-la

pluralhoup-las

Questions about houp-la

What is houp-la the obsolete form of?
Houp-la is the obsolete form of hoopla.

Words near houp-la in the dictionary

  1. hounskulls
  2. Hounslow
  3. Hounslow Heath
  4. Hounslow West
  5. Houp
  6. houp-la
  7. houp-las
  8. houpelande
  9. houpelandes
  10. houppelande
  11. houppelandes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: houp-la (page history and authors); hoopla (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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