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whoopla

whoopla is the alternative 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 whoopla

pluralwhooplas

Questions about whoopla

What is whoopla the alternative form of?
Whoopla is the alternative form of hoopla.

Words near whoopla in the dictionary

  1. whooping-cough
  2. whooping-crane
  3. whooping-cranes
  4. whoopingly
  5. whoopings
  6. whoopla
  7. whooplas
  8. whooplike
  9. whoops
  10. whoops ass
  11. whoops it up

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