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plural ballyhoos
Sensational or clamorous advertising or publicity. examples
Noisy shouting or uproar. quotations examples
Talk, it's only talk / Babble, burble, banter / Bicker, bicker, bicker / Brouhaha, balderdash, ballyhoo / It's only talk / Back talk
1981, “Elephant Talk”, in Discipline, performed by King Crimson
third-person singular simple present ballyhoos, present participle ballyhooing, simple past and past participle ballyhooed
To sensationalise or make grand claims. quotations examples
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.
1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fireside Chat (7 May)
Certain species in family Hemiramphidae, inshore, surface-dwelling needlefish forming sizeable schools.
Hemiramphus brasiliensis examples
An unseaworthy or slovenly ship. examples