callithump

Meanings

1. A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns and other discordant noises.
2. A burlesque serenade; a charivari.

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from calli- + thump, or an alteration and backformation from "Gallithumpian", a Dorset and Devon word from 1790s for a society of radical social reformers, in reference to "noisy disturbers of elections and meetings