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HOOPLA
Definition of HOOPLA
noun
A bustling to-do, excited speech or noise.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Earlier houp-la, hoop la, first attested in c. 1877, probably from French houp-là, oup-là (“upsadaisy, upsy-daisy”), a cry to various animals close to humans like horses and dogs, of likely onomatopoeic origin (but see là). Compare interjections like whoop, ahoy, hoo.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HOOPLA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 66 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
HOOPLA starts with H and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AHLOOP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found HOOPLA?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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