Why this word is great
HULLABALOO — [Noun] A loud, confused noise or commotion; a clamorous uproar or fuss. Likely a rhyming reduplication of 'halloo' (a shout to attract attention or urge on hounds). Unlike 'turmoil,' which suggests a state of profound, anxious disturbance, or 'hubbub,' which denotes a general, ambient din, a hullabaloo is a noisy public fuss with a specific, often righteous, focal point. It is the percussive outrage of a disrupted town hall meeting, the indignant, overlapping protests over a referee's call, and the collective, scandalized roar that erupts online—the splendid, fleeting theater of public upset, a sound whose primary purpose is to prove, for a moment, that someone gives a damn.