palooza/pəˈlu.zə/EtymologyFrom Lollapalooza, a music festival, from lallapalooza, or from other events ending in -a-palooza which were named based on those two words.nounAn exaggerated event.“It was not a rumor, not merely news item, or talk, or fad. It became a palooza beyond even Johnnie Gold’s desires—a wonderment scattering far and wide out of the spacious mouth of the sky, billowing everywhere and expanding forever.”