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hullabaloo (n.)

1762, hollo-ballo (with many variant spellings) "uproar, racket, noisy commotion," chiefly in northern England and Scottish, perhaps a rhyming reduplication of hollo (see hello). Bartlett ("Dictionary of Americanisms," 1848) has it as hellabaloo "riotous noise; confusion," and says it is provincial in England.

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Definitions of hullabaloo from WordNet

hullabaloo (n.)
disturbance usually in protest;
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