'ballyhoo' definitions:
Definition of 'ballyhoo'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'ballyhoo'
From: GCIDE
- ballyhoo \bal"ly*hoo\ v. t. [imp. & p. p. ballyhooed; p. pr. & vb. n. ballyhooing.] to advertize or publicize noisily or blatantly. [WordNet 1.5]
Definition of 'ballyhoo'
From: GCIDE
- ballyhoo \bal"ly*hoo\ n. noisy or blatant advertizing or publicity. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'ballyhoo'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advertise,
- aggrandize,
- aggrandizement,
- amplification,
- amplify,
- bark,
- big talk,
- bill,
- blowing up,
- blurb,
- boost,
- bright light,
- build up,
- bulletin,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- carry too far,
- celebrity,
- circularize,
- common knowledge,
- cry,
- cry up,
- currency,
- daylight,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- draw the longbow,
- eclat,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- establish,
- exaggerate,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- exposure,
- extravagance,
- extreme,
- fame,
- famousness,
- give a write-up,
- give publicity,
- glare,
- go to extremes,
- grandiloquence,
- heightening,
- herald,
- hoopla,
- huckstering,
- hue and cry,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- hyperbolize,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- lay it on,
- limelight,
- magnification,
- magnify,
- make much of,
- maximum dissemination,
- notoriety,
- overcharge,
- overdo,
- overdraw,
- overemphasis,
- overestimate,
- overestimation,
- overkill,
- overpraise,
- overreach,
- overreact,
- oversell,
- overspeak,
- overstate,
- overstatement,
- overstress,
- patter,
- pile it on,
- pitch,
- placard,
- plug,
- post,
- post bills,
- post up,
- PR,
- press notice,
- press-agent,
- prodigality,
- profuseness,
- promote,
- public eye,
- public knowledge,
- public relations,
- public report,
- publicity,
- publicity story,
- publicize,
- publicness,
- puff,
- puffery,
- puffing up,
- reclame,
- report,
- sales pitch,
- sales talk,
- sell,
- sensationalism,
- spiel,
- spotlight,
- stretch,
- stretch the truth,
- stretching,
- superlative,
- talk big,
- talk in superlatives,
- tall talk,
- tout,
- touting,
- travesty,
- trumpet,
- write up,
- write-up