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Definition of 'whoop'

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"

verb

Cough spasmodically; "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day" [syn: hack, whoop]

From: GCIDE

From: GCIDE

Whoop \Whoop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Whooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Whooping.] [OE. houpen. See Hoop, v. i.] [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
Each whooping with a merry shout. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
When naught was heard but now and then the howl Of some vile cur, or whooping of the owl. --W. Browne. [1913 Webster]
2. To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Whoop \Whoop\, v. t. To insult with shouts; to chase with derision. [1913 Webster]
And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be Whooped out of Rome. --Shak. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Whoop \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. [1913 Webster]
A fox, crossing the road, drew off a considerable detachment, who clapped spurs to their horses, and pursued him with whoops and halloos. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
The whoop of the crane. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
2. A loud, shrill, prolonged sound or sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Hoopoe \Hoop"oe\, Hoopoo \Hoop"oo\, n. [So called from its cry; cf. L. upupa, Gr. ?, D. hop, F. huppe; cf. also G. wiedenhopf, OHG. wituhopfo, lit., wood hopper.] (Zool.) A European bird of the genus Upupa (Upupa epops), having a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure, and a slender down-curving bill. Called also hoop, whoop. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus and allied genera.

From: GCIDE

Hoop \Hoop\, v. i. [OE. houpen; cf. F. houper to hoop, to shout; -- a hunting term, prob. fr. houp, an interj. used in calling. Cf. Whoop.]
1. To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout. [Usually written whoop.] [1913 Webster]
2. To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop. [1913 Webster]
Hooping cough. (Med.) See Whooping cough. [1913 Webster]