hullabaloo

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

hullabaloo
    n 1: disturbance usually in protest [syn: {agitation},
         {excitement}, {turmoil}, {upheaval}, {hullabaloo}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Hullabaloo \Hul`la*ba*loo"\, n. [Perh. a corruption of
   hurly-burly.]
   A confused noise; uproar; tumult. [Colloq.] --Thackeray.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

81 Moby Thesaurus words for "hullabaloo":
      Bedlam let loose, ado, agitation, babel, bedlam, blast, bobbery,
      bother, botheration, brawl, brouhaha, burst, bustle, charivari,
      chirm, clamor, clangor, clap, clatter, commotion, din, discord,
      donnybrook, drunken brawl, dustup, feery-fary, ferment,
      fidgetiness, fit, flap, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteriness,
      fracas, free-for-all, fuss, fussiness, gaff, hell broke loose,
      howl, hubbub, hue and cry, jangle, loud noise, maelstrom, noise,
      noise and shouting, outcry, pandemonium, pother, racket, rattle,
      restlessness, rhubarb, roar, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus,
      scramble, shindy, shivaree, spasm, spurt, stew, stir, sweat, swirl,
      thunder, thunderclap, tintamarre, to-do, tumult, unquiet, uproar,
      vociferation, vortex, whirl, whisper