-palooza

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-palooza

  1. Alternative form of -a-palooza without the -a-, found sometimes following a word which already ends in a vowel.
    • 1964, The Film Daily, volume 124, page 2:
      WORLD PREMIERE A "Molly-palooza" of a world premiere will be held in Denver early in June.
    • 2014, Maggie Bloom, Any Red-Blooded Girl:
      After all, if he hadn't smuggled those beers into my '80s movie-palooza, I'd be clutching a barf bag on a trans-Atlantic flight as we speak.