Usually means: Excessively promoting with loud fanfare.
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  1. ballyhooing: Merriam-Webster
  2. ballyhooing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ballyhooing: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ballyhooing: Vocabulary.com
  5. ballyhooing: Wordnik
  6. ballyhooing: Wiktionary
  7. ballyhooing: Dictionary.com
  8. ballyhooing: FreeDictionary.org
  9. ballyhooing: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See ballyhoo as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ballyhoo)

noun:  Sensational or clamorous advertising or publicity.
noun:  Noisy shouting or uproar.
verb:  (transitive) To sensationalize or make grand claims.
noun:  Certain species in family Hemiramphidae, inshore, surface-dwelling needlefish forming sizeable schools.
noun:  Hemiramphus brasiliensis
noun:  An unseaworthy or slovenly ship.
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