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Ballyhoo vs Hoopla - What's the difference?

ballyhoo | hoopla |

As nouns the difference between ballyhoo and hoopla

is that ballyhoo is sensational or clamorous advertising or publicity or ballyhoo can be , an inshore, surface-dwelling species of needlefish forming sizeable schools or ballyhoo can be an unseaworthy or slovenly ship while hoopla is a bustling to-do, excited speech or noise, usually loud.

As a verb ballyhoo

is to sensationalise or make grand claims.

ballyhoo

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

(en noun)
  • Sensational or clamorous advertising or publicity.
  • Noisy shouting or uproar.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To sensationalise or make grand claims.
  • * 1933 — (7 May)
    • Industry has picked up, railroads are carrying more freight, farm prices are better, but I am not going to indulge in issuing proclamations of over-enthusiastic assurance. We cannot ballyhoo ourselves back to prosperity.

    Related terms

    * ballyhooed (pos a)

    Etymology 2

    (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • , an inshore, surface-dwelling species of needlefish forming sizeable schools.

    • Etymology 3

    Possibly from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An unseaworthy or slovenly ship.

    • References

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    hoopla

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a bustling to-do, excited speech or noise, usually loud
  • *
  • * '>citation
  • a carnival game in which the player attempts to throw hoops around pegs