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Whoop

//wuːp// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun

1
A loud, eager cry, usually of joy.
"Mixed with the whoop of the crane and the roar of the grim alligator."
2
a loud hooting cry of exultation or excitement wordnet
3
A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough.
4
A bump on a racetrack.
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Verb

1
To make a whoop. intransitive
"each whooping with a merry shout"
2
To beat, to strike. informal, transitive
3
cough spasmodically wordnet
4
To shout, to yell. transitive
"I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan."
5
To defeat thoroughly. informal, transitive

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6
shout, as if with joy or enthusiasm wordnet
7
To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
8
To insult with shouts; to chase with derision. obsolete, transitive
"And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be / Whooped out of Rome."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English whopen, whowpen, howpen, houpen (“to whoop, cry out”), partially from Old French houper, hopper, houpper (“to shout”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwōpan, from Proto-Germanic *hwōpaną (“to boast, threaten”) (compare Gothic 𐍈𐍉𐍀𐌰𐌽 (ƕōpan, “to boast”), Old English hwōpan (“to threaten”)); and partially from Middle English wop (“weeping, lamentation”), from Old English wōp (“cry, outcry, shrieking, weeping, lamentation”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōp, from Proto-Germanic *wōpaz (“shout, cry, wail”) (compare Old Norse ópa (“to cry, scream, shout”), Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wōpjan, “to cry out”)).

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

From a traditional African American and Southern US pronunciation of whip.

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