ballyhoo
Theme: PROMOTION
1.
n. publicity.
I have never heard so much ballyhoo for such a lousy movie.After the ballyhoo died down, we realized that nothing at all had really changed.
2.
tr. to promote or publicize someone or something.
They ballyhooed this movie on television for a month before it came out.We promise to ballyhoo John at election time.
ballyhoo
Ⅰ
verb to draw a crowd US, 1965
Ⅱ ⇨ bally; bally act; ballyhoo
noun any method used to draw a crowd; a small, free performance given outside a place of entertainment in the hope of drawing customers inside. Circus and carnival usage US, 1901