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Onomatopoeic; compare English hoopla and French houp-là; nominalisation of hoppla/hoppala.
- IPA(key): /ˈhɔpla/
- Hyphenation: Hopp‧la
Hoppla n (strong, genitive Hoppla or Hopplas, plural Hopplas)
- flub, fluff, lapse, oopsy, slip-up
- Da ist uns ein Hoppla passiert! ― We had a slip-up there!
Declension of Hoppla [neuter, strong]