Meanings of ballyhoo in English

No steam carousel shrieked, no ballyhoo blared, no steam pianos shrieked, no barker barked.

The ballyhoo in the press was taken by various enforcement agencies as a personal affront.

Motion pictures ran day and night, their ballyhoo added to the outcries of the other barkers.

I grabbed him by the coat sleeve, trying to make my voice carry above the ballyhoo.

That is far from being the whole of Tom's "ballyhoo."

As they come up and listen to the "ballyhoo" man-

We cannot ballyhoo ourselves back to prosperity.

Why, once he took a job as a ballyhoo at a show on the Bowery in Coney Island.

Ed Allen who is at the head of it, thinks up the ideas for the ballyhoo that attracts attention.

If she would do the ballyhoo for a Kid Show, she would pack 'em in to bust down the sidewalls.

At the time of Marilyn's death six years later, Sir Laurence commented: She was the complete victim of ballyhoo and sensation.

Be off wid ye thin, darlints, and steer clear of the likes of this ballyhoo of blazes as long as ye live.

He was uncomfortable around throngs of people, and the cacophony of chatter, ballyhoo, and music always put a crease between his eyebrows.

The spectacular signs and free lure show runways were closed down, for ballyhoo of a different character had taken their place for the daytime.

At eighteen he was a side show ballyhoo; later, the manager of the side show, and, soon after, the proprietor of a second-class vaudeville house.

Ten years ago, you may remember X.500 was a much-ballyhooed directory protocol.