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Whoop   /wup/  /hwup/   Listen
noun
Whoop  n.  (Zool.) The hoopoe.


Whoop  n.  
1.
A shout of pursuit or of war; a very of eagerness, enthusiasm, enjoyment, vengeance, terror, or the like; an halloo; a hoot, or cry, as of an owl. "A fox, crossing the road, drew off a considerable detachment, who clapped spurs to their horses, and pursued him with whoops and halloos." "The whoop of the crane."
2.
A loud, shrill, prolonged sound or sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.


verb
Whoop  v. t.  To insult with shouts; to chase with derision. "And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be Whooped out of Rome."


Hoop  v. i.  
1.
To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout. (Usually written whoop)
2.
To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop.
Hooping cough. (Med.) See Whooping cough.


Whoop  v. i.  (past & past part. whooped; pres. part. whooping)  
1.
To utter a whoop, or loud cry, as eagerness, enthusiasm, or enjoyment; to cry out; to shout; to halloo; to utter a war whoop; to hoot, as an owl. "Each whooping with a merry shout." "When naught was heard but now and then the howl Of some vile cur, or whooping of the owl."
2.
To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.





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"Whoop" Quotes from Famous Books



... hurry along the narrow path, but out of the silence behind us came a shout that caused us to dive promptly into the bushes. The whoop came from the direction of the camping ground, and we had hardly crouched in the undergrowth when a nude native crashed through the vines and raced past our hiding place. He was followed by two more, the three running at top speed, heads forward, and their chests heaving ...
— The White Waterfall • James Francis Dwyer
... whoop whether he is or not," said father heartlessly. "What I want is for you to get it into your head, once for all, that you're to have NOTHING to do with this fellow or any ...
— Missy • Dana Gatlin
... received our orders, and when we got to the landing we stood there just an instant. "Now we have him—Gian the hypocrite!" whispered the stout man in a hoarse breath. We burst in the doors with a whoop and a bang. The change from the dark to the light sort of blinded us at first. We all supposed that there was a dance in progress of course, and the screams from women were just what we expected; but when we saw several overturned easels and an old ...
— The Mintage • Elbert Hubbard
... into the house, rushed through the almost deserted nursery, and startled nurse out of her seven senses with a wild whoop. ...
— Girls of the Forest • L. T. Meade
... shrieking any night. They were behind with their rent all the time, but the company was good to them; there was some politics back of that, Grandmother Majauszkiene could not say just what, but the Laffertys had belonged to the "War Whoop League," which was a sort of political club of all the thugs and rowdies in the district; and if you belonged to that, you could never be arrested for anything. Once upon a time old Lafferty had been caught with a gang that had stolen cows from several of the poor people of the neighborhood ...
— The Jungle • Upton Sinclair


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