ballyhoo
ba lee hooh
- n blatant or sensational promotion
- v advertize noisily or blatantly
- The Federal Trade Commission complained that Hadacol's leeringly prurient ballyhoo ("The Hadacol boogie makes you boogie-woogie all the time") is "false, misleading and deceptive .
- Ballyhoo for the Westminster Kennel Club's Annual Dog Show is usually composed of statistics, freaks, photographs of puppies.
- The blatant ballyhoo for the trial, next month, at Dayton, Tenn.