ballyhoo
noun
a clamorous and vigorous attempt to win customers or advance any cause; blatant advertising or publicity.
ballyhoos
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pluralof ballyhoo.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof ballyhoo (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
ballyhoonouna clamorous and vigorous attempt to win customers or advance any cause; blatant advertising or publicity.
Example Sentences
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“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts,” a goofy seventh installment that rattles along well enough until the wheels fall off, ballyhoos an evolution: a biomechanical gorilla who calls himself Optimus Primal.
From New York Times β Jun. 8, 2023
Newspaper editors are not as a rule fond of pressagents, but Dexter Fellows is a pressagent extraordinary, and he ballyhoos the most widely beloved of U. S. businesses.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hudson introduces a snappy, new low-price six, the Traveler, ballyhoos its independent front wheel suspension with centre point steering.
From Time Magazine Archive
He ballyhoos himself as "a genie of journalistic paste jars, a fantastic flower nurtured in a pot of printer's ink, a product of the freedom of the press."
From Time Magazine Archive
An expression in our faces as we drift by the fastidious ballyhoos of the shop windows.
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht
