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Added 10 October 2026

hoopla

/ˈhuːplɑ/ noun

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A bustling to-do, excited speech or noise.
A carnival game in which the player attempts to throw hoops around pegs.

Origin

Earlier houp-la, hoop la, first attested in c. 1877, probably from French houp-là, oup-là (“upsadaisy, upsy-daisy”), a cry to various animals close to humans like horses and dogs, of likely onomatopoeic origin (but see là). Compare interjections like whoop, ahoy, hoo.

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