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 ● Jun. 8, 2023
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
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
He places donors' names conspicuously beneath the paintings, and ballyhoos their gifts through his newspaper chain.
From Time Magazine Archive
He's after a school of ballyhoos or mossbunkers ….
From Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story by Albert Payson Terhune
