whoop Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a loud hooting cry of exultation or excitement
  2. verb shout, as if with joy or enthusiasm
    • The children whooped when they were led to the picnic table
  3. verb cough spasmodically
    hack.
    • The patient with emphysema is hacking all day

WordNet

Whoop noun
Etymology
See Hoopoe.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) The hoopoe.
Whoop intransitive verb
Etymology
OE. houpen. See Hoop, v. i.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Whooped ; present participle & verbal noun Whooping
Definitions
  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. Wordsworth.
    When naught was heard but now and then the howl Of some vile cur, or whooping of the owl. W. Browne.
  2. To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
Whoop transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.
    And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be Whooped out of Rome. Shak.
Whoop noun
Definitions
  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. Addison.
    The whoop of the crane. Longfellow.
  2. A loud, shrill, prolonged sound or sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.

Webster 1913