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Poster from the 1941 movie

From the interesting Wordhistories site:

“Popularised by the 1938 theatre musical Hellzapoppin’, and by the 1941 film Hellzapoppin’ based on the former, the one-word form hellzapoppin’ represents a colloquial pronunciation of the phrase hell’s a poppin’…

“The phrase hell’s a poppin’, and its variants, mean events are unfolding …

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