Found 2 items, similar to Whoop.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: whoop
whoop
n : a loud hooting cry of exultation or excitement
v 1: shout, as if with joy or enthusiasm;
“The children whooped
when they were led to the picnic table”
2: cough spasmodically;
“The patient with emphysema is hacking
all day” [syn:
hack]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Whoop
Whoop
\Whoop\, n. [See Hoopoe.] (Zo["o]l.)
The hoopoe.
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Whoop
\Whoop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Whooped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Whooping.] [OE. houpen. See
Hoop, v. i.]
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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.
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Each whooping with a merry shout. --Wordsworth.
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When naught was heard but now and then the howl
Of some vile cur, or whooping of the owl. --W.
Browne.
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2. To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in
whooping cough.
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Whoop
\Whoop\, v. t.
To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.
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And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be
Whooped out of Rome. --Shak.
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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.
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A fox, crossing the road, drew off a considerable
detachment, who clapped spurs to their horses, and
pursued him with whoops and halloos. --Addison.
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The whoop of the crane. --Longfellow.
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2. A loud, shrill, prolonged sound or sonorous inspiration,
as in whooping cough.
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