whoop
IPA: wˈup
noun
- A loud, eager cry, usually of joy.
- A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough.
- A bump on a racetrack.
verb
- (intransitive) To make a whoop.
- (transitive) To shout, to yell.
- To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
- (transitive, obsolete) To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.
- (transitive, informal) To beat, to strike.
- (transitive, informal) To defeat thoroughly.
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Examples of "whoop" in Sentences
- One producer wasn't there big whoop...
- A whoop and cheers come from the audience.
- The nominated article is Can of whoop ass.
- As for the similar edit summaries, big whoop.
- He was whooping and hollering on the playground.
- Hal dies at the age of 2 in 1923 of whooping cough.
- The call of the pigeon is a very loud whoop a whoop .
- Some whoopings, followed by an otherworldly quavering.
- There are some proportional differences, but big whoop.
- Whoops and hollers have also been erupting from an older crowd.
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