Whoop meaning

ho͝op, wo͝op, hwo͝op
(informal) To beat, to strike.
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Whoop is to let out a loud cry or yell.

An example of whoop is to scream when your favorite team wins.

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Whoop is defined as a noise or cry often made in excitement.

An example of whoop used as an interjection is in the sentence, "Whoop! My favorite team just won!"

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The definition of a whoop is a loud scream or cry.

An example of a whoop is a shout when a team wins.

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A hooting cry, as of a bird.
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The paroxysmal gasp characteristic of whooping cough.
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To utter a loud shout or cry.
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To utter a hooting cry.
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To make the paroxysmal gasp characteristic of whooping cough.
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To utter with a whoop.
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To chase, call, urge on, or drive with a whoop.

Whooping the cattle down the road.

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A loud shout, cry, or noise.
  • A shrill and prolonged cry, as of excitement, exultation, ferocity, etc.
  • A hoot, as of an owl.
  • The gasping sound marking the convulsive intake of air that immediately follows a fit of coughing in whooping cough.
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To utter, or move along with, a whoop or whoops.
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To utter with a whoop or whoops.
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To drive, urge on, chase, bring about, etc. with whoops.
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The paroxysmal gasp characteristic of whooping cough.
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To make the paroxysmal gasp characteristic of whooping cough.
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An exclamation, a cry, usually of joy.
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A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough.
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A bump on a racetrack.
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A bird, the hoopoe.
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(intransitive) To make a whoop.
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To shout, to yell.
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To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
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(informal) To defeat thoroughly.
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whoop it up
  • To have a jolly, noisy celebration.
  • To express or arouse enthusiasm; cheer:.
    Conventioneers whooping it up for their candidate.
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not worth a whoop
  • Worth nothing at all.
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whoop it up
  • To create a noisy disturbance, as in celebrating.
  • To create enthusiasm (for).
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Idioms and Phrasal Verbs

not worth a whoop

Origin of whoop

  • From Middle English whopen to whoop variant of hopen from Old French hopper of imitative origin
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Middle English whopen, whowpen, howpen, houpen (“to whoop, cry out"), partially from Old French houper, hopper, houpper (“to shout"), of uncertain origin (compare Old Norse ópa (“to cry, scream, shout"), Gothic [script?] (wōpjan, “to crow as a cock"), Gothic [script?] (hwōpjan, “to boast"), Old English hwōpan (“to threaten")); and partially from Middle English wop (“weeping, lamentation"), from Old English wōp (“cry, outcry, shrieking, weeping, lamentation"), see woop.
    From Wiktionary
  • Corruption of whip.
    From Wiktionary

Whoop Sentence Examples

  • With a whoop, she twirled in the middle of the shadow world.

  • He let out a whoop as he emerged into the underworld.

  • At last the men mounted, and, as they say in the old songs, away went the steeds with bridles ringing and whips cracking and hounds racing ahead, and away went the champion hunters "with hark and whoop and wild halloo!"

  • When the warmer days come, they who dwell near the river hear the ice crack at night with a startling whoop as loud as artillery, as if its icy fetters were rent from end to end, and within a few days see it rapidly going out.

  • Well, big whoop, mate, you can stand still.

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