Palooza

Etymology
From Lollapalooza, a music festival, from lallapalootza

Noun

 * 1)  An exaggerated event.
 * 2) * 2002, Darin Strauss, The Real McCoy, A Novel, Dutton, ISBN 0525946519, 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.
 * 1) * 2003, Mike Olszewski, Radio Daze, Stories from the Front in Cleveland's FM Air Wars, Kent State University Press, ISBN 0873387732, 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).
 * 1) * 2005, John Lithgow, “Boredom Blasters”, “Rainy Day Fun Edition”, Running Press, ISBN 0762422122, 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!
 * 1) * 2008 February 9, Peter Sagal, Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, 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”.

Related terms

 * -a-palooza