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Whoop [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Hoop. [ This is the same as hoop, but aspirated. The sense is to drive out the voice.]

2. A shout of pursuit.

3. A shout of war; a particular cry of troops when they rush to the attack. The Indians of America are remarkable for their war whoop

4. The bird called hoopoe or upupa.

Whoop [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To shout with a particular voice.

Whoop [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To insult with shouts.

Whoop [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The hoopoe.

2. 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.

3. A loud, shrill, prolonged sound or sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.

Whoop [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

2. To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.

Whoop [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.

Whooped [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Whooper [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, whooops.

Whooping Webster's Dictionary 1913

a. & n. from Whoop, v. t.

Whooping [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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