Pronounced: SCAN-sor-ee-uhl, adj
Notes: I’ve never run across this word
Yesterday’s word
The word lollapalooza (also lallapalooza, lalapalooza, or lollapaloosa) is “one that is extraordinarily impressive; an outstanding example”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1800s
Background / Comments
There is a music festival held annually in Chicago that’s called lollapalooza. People aren’t sure where our word came from. Our word sometimes is used as a gambling term for a made-up hand used to trick an inexperienced player. However, our word is primarily used in the same way as “humdinger” and “doozy” are used. The 1930s cartoonist Rube Goldberg created a character named “Lala Palooza”.
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