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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."


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



... whoop resembling that sound. Like others of its genus it comes from its hiding place at sunset, and its note in the distance is exactly like that of the cuckoo, but the sound changes as you approach it. This bird has a dark brown ...
— Expedition into Central Australia • Charles Sturt
... a whoop and a yell, and a scream and a shout, At once the whole murderous body turned out; And swift as the hawk pounces down on the pigeon, Pursued the poor ...
— Ballads • William Makepeace Thackeray
... before a court-martial, with every prospect of being hanged within the se'ennight; that a deputation of Nottoways and Meherrins, having business with the white fathers in Williamsburgh, were to be persuaded to dance their wildest, whoop their loudest, around a bonfire built in the market square; that at the playhouse Cato was to be given with extraordinary magnificence, and one may readily see that there might have been found, in this sunny September week, places ...
— Audrey • Mary Johnston
... earth, God rest the lady fowl that gave thee birth! Fit missile for the vilest hand to throw— I freely tender thee mine own. Although As a bad egg I am myself no slouch, Thy riper years thy ranker worth avouch. Now, Pickering, please expose your eye and say If—whoop!— (Exit egg.) I've ...
— Black Beetles in Amber • Ambrose Bierce
... to meet Ellen's eyes before they were startled by a shriek that was not the merry 'whoop' and 'I spy' of the game, and, springing up, the girls saw little Anne Fordyce rushing headlong down the very steepest part of the slope, just where it ended in an extremely muddy pool, the watering-place of the cattle. The child was totally unable ...
— Chantry House • Charlotte M. Yonge


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