Definitions

whoopla

[hoop-lah, hwoop-, woop-] / ˈhup lɑ, ˈʰwup-, ˈwup- /

NOUN

revelry

Synonyms

STRONGEST

debauchery festivity

STRONG

carousal carouse celebration debauch entertainment festival fun gaiety jollification jollity party saturnalia spree

WEAK

high jinks reveling revelment whoop-de-do

Antonyms

STRONG

sadness work

WEAK

mourning sobriety

Example Sentences

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All this musical whoopla endeared Jeritza to her public, if not to her fellow artists.

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There was a whoopla in Toronto last week that should soon spread all over Canada.

From Time Magazine Archive

All this whoopla was nothing new to George and Sam Friedland, the hard-selling brothers who run Food Fair Stores.

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