palooza
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Lollapalooza, a music festival, from lallapalooza, or from other events ending in -a-palooza which were named based on those two words.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
palooza (plural paloozas)
- (neologism) An exaggerated event.
- 2002, Darin Strauss, The Real McCoy: A Novel, Dutton, →ISBN, page 97:
- 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.
- 2003, Mike Olszewski, Radio Daze: Stories from the Front in Cleveland's FM Air Wars, Kent State University Press, →ISBN, page 434:
- True, most of our competition did anything and everything to thwart every concert and promotion we were involved with over the summer months...especially Buzzard-Palooza (which was actually our turning point—when we began to attract our new audience).
- 2005, John Lithgow, “Boredom Blasters”, “Rainy Day Fun Edition”, Running Press, →ISBN, page 5
- That’s a palooza, in a nutshell: flexing your creative muscles to make your own fun. So have a go at one or all of these, and don’t say I didn’t warn you—once you get a taste of doing a palooza, you’ll go from wondering what you’re going to do all day to wondering where all the time went!
- 2008 February 9, Peter Sagal, “Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!”, in National Public Radio:
- Now, we’re gonna start you off this week with a special edition of Carl Kasell’s Countdown. We’re calling it “Super Tuesday Palooza”.