jaleo (m)
n.
pandemonium, uproar, commotion
JALEOS
Shouts of encouragement. A person doing this is called a JALEADOR (male) or JALEADORA (female). These players also provide rhythmic effects such as palmas (hand clapping) and pitos (finger snaps) and act as a sort of cheer squad for the up front performers.
(HELL-AYE-OS)
jaleo
= fireworks, buzz, rumpus, hoopla, hubbub, ruckus, commotion.
Ex: 'You know, Tom, if I ever find another job -- and I'm already looking -- there will be some fireworks around here before I leave, I can guarantee you that!'.
Ex: The article is entitled 'Turf wars in the playback software arena: Microsoft Netshow, Windows Multimedia Player, and all that buzz'.
Ex: Then reading of this story aloud to young children as they look at the pictures, needs a firm, quiet voice, until that glorious wordless pictorial passage showing the 'wild rumpus,' when at least one reader discovers it is necessary to give a one-man vocal performance of some rumbustious classical music as accompaniment to the viewing of those pages.
Ex: Amid the hoopla, she hasn't forgotten its roots.
Ex: And arming himself with patience and piety he tarried awhile until the hubbub was stilled.
Ex: Sometime back a heroine created a ruckus by saying that the actor acted fresh with her by biting her lips in a smooching scene.
Ex: She pleaded, futilely, in broken French, until an elderly man, hearing the commotion, came to her rescue.