ballyhoo meaning

• Noun: ballyhoo  'balee`hoo
  1. Blatant or sensational promotion
     - hoopla, hype, plug
  Verb: ballyhoo  'balee`hoo
  1. Advertize noisily or blatantly

  Derived forms: ballyhoos, ballyhooing, ballyhooed

  Type of: advertise, advertize [US, non-standard], packaging, promotion, promotional material, publicise [Brit], publicity, publicize

  Encyclopedia: Ballyhoo

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  [American slang]
  1. n. publicity.
  • I have never heard so much ballyhoo for such a lousy movie.
  • After the ballyhoo died down, we realized that nothing at all had really changed.
  
  

• ballyhoo artist:    Noun: ballyhoo art ...

Examples

1. the candidate's campaign was attended with too much ballyhoo
2. the company was too conservative to indulge in ballyhoo in its advertising
3. But it is not worth the ballyhoo that has accompanied it.
4. Uhry for " The Last Night at Ballyhoo ."
5. Such ballyhoo would be alien to Thornton's onscreen personality.