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lalapalooza

English

Noun

lalapalooza (plural lalapaloozas)

  1. Alternative form of lollapalooza

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lollapalooza

English

Alternative forms

  • lallapalooza, lalapalooza, lallapaloosa, lolapalooza, lolapaloosa, lollapaloosa

Etymology

Unknown. Compare lollypaloozer and lallapalootza, which are attested earlier with similar meaning. Compare also 19th century slang la-la "something unusually good".

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /?l?l?p??luz?/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?l?l?p??lu?z?/
  • Hyphenation: lol?la?pa?loo?za

Noun

lollapalooza (plural lollapaloozas)

  1. (informal) An outstanding, extreme, or outrageous example of its kind.
    • 1991 Nov. 3, Studs Terkel, "Keillor's elegy to randy radio" (Book Review of WLT A Radio Romance by Garrison Keillor), Chicago Sun-Times (retrieved 23 July 2011):
      Here is a novel of low comedy and high raillery. It's a lollapalooza that turns out to be a comic elegy for old-time radio.

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