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hoo-hah

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hoo-ha or hoo-hah  (h)
n. Slang
1. A fuss; a disturbance: "the subject of this last hoo-hah" William Safire.
2. A chortle or laugh: got a good hoo-ha out of that story.

[Perhaps from Yiddish hu-ha, to-do, uproar, exclamation.]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.hoo-hah - a disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused"
disorder - a disturbance of the peace or of public order
turmoil, upheaval, convulsion - a violent disturbance; "the convulsions of the stock market"
earthquake - a disturbance that is extremely disruptive; "selling the company caused an earthquake among the employees"
incident - a public disturbance; "the police investigated an incident at the bus station"
stir, splash - a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event; "he made a great splash and then disappeared"
tempest, storm - a violent commotion or disturbance; "the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away"; "it was only a tempest in a teapot"
storm center, storm centre - a center of trouble or disturbance
garboil, tumult, tumultuousness, uproar - a state of commotion and noise and confusion

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These range from the inexplicable, such as classy Oscar winners Jim Broadbent and Kathy Bates (well, she was in Coraci's ``Waterboy'') to Rob Schneider (probably most kid-pleasing of the lot) to the sheerly loony last acting hoo-hah of our current governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, as a vain and horny Turkish prince.
But it does mean that an ensemble of outstanding British actors could bring desperately vivid, emotionally intelligent life to a subgenre that's been marked by awkward couplings of hard-core and theoretical hoo-hah.
 
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