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Hullabaloo

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1762, OED Evaluation: Figurative

Tumultuous noise or clamour; uproar; clamorous confusion

ExampleMeaning
All together, yeah. They all went in- went into the houses see. Some of them would be dressed up and all and they'd make a lot of noise like a (inc) or-something outside you-see and hullabaloo and they'd go in and they'd treat them and out they'd go again, on to the next house.
A commotion
ExampleMeaning
It 's like when I was in Ottawa one year with my Dad and we went to the National-Art-Gallery and it was just that huge like hullabaloo that they bought some painting that was like thirty-million dollars, and it was huge, it was probably like the size of this wall, but it was just literally yellow, blue and red paint that had been splattered on a canvas.
A commotion