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ballyhoo 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/ˈbalēˌho͞o/,
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Extravagant publicity or fuss,
  1. Praise or publicize extravagantly
    • - a much-ballyhooed musical extravaganza
Noun
  1. Extravagant publicity or fuss
    • - after all the ballyhoo, the film was a flop
  1. advertize noisily or blatantly
  2. blatant or sensational promotion
  3. The ballyhoo or bally, Hemiramphus brasiliensis, is a baitfish of the halfbeak family (Hemiramphidae). It is similar to the Balao halfbeak (Hemiramphus balao). Ballyhoo are frequently used as cut bait and for trolling purposes by saltwater sportsmen.
  4. Ballyhoo is a compilation album by Echo & the Bunnymen, released in 1997. Liner notes were written by the group's former manager Bill Drummond.
  5. Ballyhoo is a stage lighting cue where a spotlight operator of a followspot moves their lamp in a random figure-8 pattern throughout a theater or other performance venue. This is often executed at the end or finale of a show and involves at least two spot lamps. ...
  6. Ballyhoo was a humor magazine published by Dell, created by George T. Delacorte Jr., and edited by Norman Anthony, from 1931 until 1939, with a couple of attempts to resuscitate the magazine (Now edited by Bill Yates) after the war between 1948 and 1954. ...
  7. Ballyhoo is an interactive fiction computer game designed by Jeff O'Neill and published by Infocom in 1986. ...
  8. Sensational or clamorous advertising or publicity; Noisy shouting or uproar; To sensationalise or make grand claims
  9. (ballyhooed) Sensationalised; presented with grand claims
  10. (Ballyhooed) Talked about in an exaggerated way.
  11. Sales talk, advertising, exaggeration.
  12. (US) Swinging a followspot beam around in a figure of eight pattern. A more random effect is sometimes known as an RKO (after the searchlights used in the RKO Pictures movie logo.