• (RP) IPA: /ˌhʌləbəˈluː/
• (GA) IPA: /ˌhʌləbəˈlu/, /ˈhʌləbəˌlu/

hullabaloo (plural hullabaloos)

1. A clamour, a commotion; a fuss or uproar. [from 17th c.]

   Synonyms: ado, hype, to-do, Thesaurus:commotion

   They made such a hullabaloo about the change that the authorities were forced to change it back.

   • 1899 March, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MI, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], OCLC 1042815524 ↗, part II:

     Certainly they had brought with them some rotten hippo–meat, which couldn’t have lasted very long, anyway, even if the pilgrims hadn’t, in the midst of a shocking hullabaloo, thrown a considerable quantity of it overboard.

• French: branle-bas, branlebas, buzz, émeute, excitation, tintamarre
• German: Aufheben, Aufregung, Aufruhr, Bohei, Gedöns, Rummel, Wirbel, Tohuwabohu
• Russian: тарара́м
• Spanish: aspaviento, barullo, excitación, rebullicio, revuelo, descalzaperros

hullabaloo (hullabaloos, present participle hullabalooing; past and past participle hullabalooed)

1. (intransitive) To make a commotion or uproar.

• French: faire des chichis, chichiter
• German: viel Aufheben machen, einen Rummel veranstalten, einen Wirbel machen, für Wirbel sorgen, Wellen schlagen
• Spanish: poner el grito en el cielo, hacer muchos aspavientos