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English

Pronunciation

IPA: /bæliˈhuː/
An audio transcript can be found at en-us-ballyhoo.ogg

Noun

sensational|Sensational or clamorous advertising or publicity.
Noisy shouting or uproar.
An inshore, surface-dwelling species of needlefish forming sizeable schools. Feeds mainly on sea grasses and small fishes. Mainly used as bait for offshore game fishes such as sailfish|sailfishes and marlin|marlins; utilized as a food fish in the West Indies.

Translations

German: Klamauk

Verb

To sensationalise or make grand claims.
*1933 — w:Franklin D. Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt, s:Roosevelt's Fireside Chat, 7 May 1933|Fireside Chat (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.

Translations

German: marktschreierisch anpreisen

Related terms

ballyhooed

et:ballyhoo ru:ballyhoo vi:ballyhoo zh:ballyhoo

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English ballyhoo \bal"ly*hoo\ v. t. [imp. & p. p. ballyhooed; p. pr. &
vb. n. ballyhooing.]
to advertize or publicize noisily or blatantly.
[WordNet 1.5]

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English ballyhoo \bal"ly*hoo\ n.
noisy or blatant advertizing or publicity.
[WordNet 1.5]

WordNet ballyhoo
n : blatant or sensational promotion [syn: hoopla, hype, plug]
v : advertize noisily or blatantly

Moby Dictionary
PR , advertise , aggrandize , aggrandizement , amplification , amplify ,
bark , big talk , bill , blowing up , blurb , boost , bright light ,
build up , bulletin , burlesque , caricature , carry too far ,
celebrity , circularize , common knowledge , cry , cry up , currency ,
daylight , dilatation , dilation , draw the longbow , eclat ,
enhancement , enlargement , establish , exaggerate , exaggerating ,
exaggeration , excess , exorbitance , expansion , exposure ,
extravagance , extreme , fame , famousness , give a write-up ,
give publicity , glare , go to extremes , grandiloquence , heightening ,
herald , hoopla , huckstering , hue and cry , hyperbole , hyperbolism ,
hyperbolize , inflation , inordinacy , lay it on , limelight ,
magnification , magnify , make much of , maximum dissemination ,
notoriety , overcharge , overdo , overdraw , overemphasis ,
overestimate , overestimation , overkill , overpraise , overreach ,
overreact , oversell , overspeak , overstate , overstatement ,
overstress , patter , pile it on , pitch , placard , plug , post ,
post bills , post up , press notice , press-agent , prodigality ,
profuseness , promote , public eye , public knowledge ,
public relations , public report , publicity , publicity story ,
publicize , publicness , puff , puffery , puffing up , reclame , report ,
sales pitch , sales talk , sell , sensationalism , spiel , spotlight ,
stretch , stretch the truth , stretching , superlative , talk big ,
talk in superlatives , tall talk , tout , touting , travesty , trumpet ,
write up , write-up