disturbance usually in protest

A confused noise; uproar; tumult.

Words formed to represent a confused noise; uproar; confusion.

It was at this moment that Joe Petty, attracted by the hullabaloo, arrived in the doorway, and running up to his master, lifted him from behind and carried him from the room, still brandishing the ham- bone and kicking out with his legs. – The Burning Spear by John Galsworthy

Andy, run to the public booth in the corridor and call Dalton and tell him to pay no attention to any hullabaloo by hysterical women. – All-Wool Morrison by Holman Day

So he ran round and round the sugar- cane field, and as he ran he sang and shouted, and made a great hullabaloo. – Stories to Tell to Children by Sara Cone Bryant

There'll be another hullabaloo on in another minute, I expect," said Mrs. Cartwright, cheerfully. – The Disturbing Charm by Berta Ruck

The Daily Hullabaloo says- Shine, boss? – The Journal of Arthur Stirling "The Valley of the Shadow" by Upton Sinclair

Some of th' tunes was sweet an' slow enough so you could follow 'em afoot, but most of 'em was so fast a feller'd need to be runnin' 'em on his top- cutting horse to git close enough to tell if they was real music or jest a hullabaloo big noise. – The Boy Scouts Book of Stories by Various

Suddenly there arose a hullabaloo. – The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy by Mabel Henriette Spielmann

The ultra- erotic verse of that poet somehow suggests a wild hullabaloo raised to divert our attention from the fact that he was constitutionally incapable of experiencing passion. – The Poet's Poet by Elizabeth Atkins

" You'll get all the fireworks you want, young man, without all that hullabaloo," remarked the driver, whom Dorman had been told, at the depot twenty miles back, he must call his Uncle Richard. – Her Prairie Knight by B.M. Sinclair, AKA B. M. Bower

You never heard such a hullabaloo." – The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

And then, just at that moment, there broke out from the thickest part of the wood the most frantic hullabaloo that ever he had heard in his life. – The Green Flag by Arthur Conan Doyle

" I do admire your Mexican friends," Grandma admitted grudgingly, " keeping so nice in such a hullabaloo." – Across the Fruited Plain by Florence Crannell Means

Now, when it comes my turn, I don't want all this hullabaloo,- I think I shall get a good old rope ladder and elope. – Patty Blossom by Carolyn Wells

The two vessels collided with considerably more violence than I had anticipated, so much so, indeed, that the shock sent me reeling to the deck, whereby I just escaped being shot through the head by the volley of musketry with which the Frenchmen greeted our arrival; at the same moment our broadside again crashed through and through the lugger's bulwarks; and with a hearty cheer on our side, and a terrific hullabaloo on the part of the French, our lads leapt aboard the lugger, and, taking no denial, succeeded in clearing her decks after an obstinate fight of about a minute, during which several rather severe hurts were given and received on both sides. – The Log of a Privateersman by Harry Collingwood

Then they would ring the farm bell and raise a great hullabaloo, but he and Frank, safe within the dark cavern, would live their own lives. – Frank of Freedom Hill by Samuel A. Derieux

The old run- around, Bennington decided: Put the man in jail on a minor charge until the hullabaloo over his major crime no longer made big headlines. – Take the Reason Prisoner by John Joseph McGuire