Whoop

[wuːp] or [wup]

Definition

(noun.) a loud hooting cry of exultation or excitement.

(verb.) shout, as if with joy or enthusiasm; 'The children whooped when they were led to the picnic table'.

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Definition

(n.) The hoopoe.

(v. i.) 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.

(v. i.) To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.

(v. t.) To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A loud, shrill, prolonged sound or sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Shout, halloo, hoot, yell.

v. n. Shout, halloo, hollo, holla, yell, cry out.

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Definition

n. a loud eager cry.—v.i. to give a clear sharp cry: to shout in scorn eagerness &c.—v.t. to insult with shouts.—interj. (Shak.) ho!—ns. Whoop′er one who whoops: a species of swan; Whoop′ing-cough Hooping-cough an infectious and epidemic disease mostly attacking children under ten esp. in spring and autumn its characteristic sign a cough occurring in paroxysms consisting of a series of short expiratory puffs followed by a deep inspiration of air through the contracted cleft of the glottis.

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